“…Separations involving volatilization and/or combustion have been the subject of a number of papers. Four papers described the automatic combustion of organic compounds for determining carbon, hydrogen, sulfur, the halogens, nitrogen, and oxygen (3,17,139,278). Humphlett (117) discussed an automatic receiver for continuous vacuum distillation, while Hensel and Jones (109) devised an automatic mechanical lowering device for use in the ASTM determination of volatile matter in coal, coke, and char.…”