Aluminium supplies in emergency

• Book ID: 102325173
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1939
• Weight: 114 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000581848

✦ Synopsis

l'lic Aluniiniuiii Iuforiiiatioii Burcnu i n London, siirvcying Britnin's position i n rcspcct of iiliiininium siipplics in time of cmcrgciicy, stntcs thit . in norinnl timcs :rlrout four-fifths of tlie nlrirniniiini uscil in thc United Kingdom is imported i n tlic forni of metal, chicfly from Ciuindn, wliilc tlic rcniaiiidcr is producccl from iniportcd Inuxite. Of the imports of h u x i t c in 1938 :tboiit 83% cauic from Prnncc and most of tlic rcinniiidcr froin h i t i s h Guii!iin nnd arcccc. Frnncc is thc priiiciprrl prodiiccr of bitusitc, ns is slio\.ii in thc following t:il)lc of world biiuxitc production in 1037, tlic lntcst, yeiir for whicli dctiiils arc nrnilnblc :

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