Creative chemistry : descriptive of recent achievements in the chemical industries / by Edwin E. Slosson.

  • Slosson, Edwin E. (Edwin Emery), 1865-1929
Date:
1921
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Credit: Creative chemistry : descriptive of recent achievements in the chemical industries / by Edwin E. Slosson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The production of new and stronger forms of steel is one of the greatest triumphs of modern chemistry Frontispiece FACING PAGE The hand grenades contain potential chemical energy capable of causing a vast amount of destruction when released.16 Women in a munition plant engaged in the manufacture of tri-nitro-toluol.17 A chemical reaction on a large scale.32 Burning air in a Birkeland-Eyde furnace at the DuPont plant.33 A battery of Birkeland-Eyde furnaces for the fixation of nitrogen at the DuPont plant.33 Fixing nitrogen by calcium carbide.40 A barrow full of potash salts extracted from six tons of green kelp by the government chemists .... 41 Nature’s silent method of nitrogen fixation.41 In order to secure a new supply of potash salts the United States Government set up an experimental plant at Sutherland, California, for the utilization of kelp . 52 Overhead suction at the San Diego wharf pumping kelp from the barge to the digestion tanks.53 The kelp harvester gathering the seaweed from the Pacific Ocean.53 A battery of Koppers by-product coke-ovens at the plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company, Sparrows Point, Maryland.60 In these mixing vats at the Buffalo Works, aniline dyes are prepared.61 A paper mill in action.120 Cellulose from wood pulp is now made into a large variety of useful articles of which a few examples are here pictured. 121