A tiny drop of fuel oil no larger than the head of a safety match has been torn into 100,000,000 particles at the research laboratory of the General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y., it is announced.
Intensely hot combustion results at high efficiency. Engineers are expected to apply the discovery to a new oil furnace.
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