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  • According to Bullier, however, acetylene must contain 80 per cent of phosphine to render it spontaneously inflammable.

    Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

  • During 1901 and 1902 Bullier and Maquenne patented a substance made by mixing bleaching-powder with sodium sulphate, whereby a double decomposition occurs, sodium hypochlorite, which is equally efficient with calcium hypochlorite as a purifying material, being produced together with calcium sulphate, which, being identical with plaster of Paris, sets into a solid mass with the excess of water present, and is claimed to render the whole more porous.

    Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

  • Bullier, effect of heat on burners, phosphorus in acetylene, and Maquenne purifier,

    Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

  • Keppeler, who found that the Bullier and Maquenne material imparted more chlorine to the gas which had traversed it than other hypochlorite purifying agents, and that the partly foul material was liable to cause violent explosions.

    Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

  • Bullier where once little Luzanne, the inspiration of a hundred palettes, tripped the polka, the new Bullier with its coloured electricity and ragtime band and professional treaders of the Avenue de l'Observatoire, is eke romance to his nostril.

    Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

  • Cronshaw, she would see him; and there was Lawson, he had gone to Paris for a couple of months; and they would go to the Bal Bullier; there were excursions; they would make trips to Versailles, Chartres, Fontainebleau.

    Of Human Bondage 1919

  • He proposed that they should go to the Bal Bullier, and Philip, feeling too tired to go to bed, willingly enough consented.

    Of Human Bondage 1915

  • He carried with him, about the boulevards at night, in the highly powerful car he had hired, large parties of strange people, who would loudly sing airs from the Folie-Rouge (to my unhappy shudderings) all the way from the fatiguing Bal Bullier to the Cafe 'de Paris, where the waiters soon became affluent.

    The Beautiful Lady Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Fanchon's dance came from the Orient by a roundabout way; pausing in Spain, taking on a Gallic frankness in gallantry at the Bal Bullier in Paris, combining with a relative from the South Seas encountered in San Francisco, flavouring itself with

    Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907

  • "See here, little goose, I never cared about any of that crowd, and I haven't been to the Bullier since -- since last May."

    In the Quarter 1899

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