In article , Andy Champ
scribeth thus
Java Jive wrote:

Really, I'm very surprised to hear that. I wonder what the different
formulae were/are.

Town gas was largely hydrogen (with a substantial level of carbon
monoxide, which is why it was poisonous) whereas natural gas is largely
methane.

Andy

This is why Cambridge was converted quite early too many students with
their heads in the gas oven if they couldn't hack the courses;(



Tony Sayer