The heavy chemical and allied industries in 1928

✍ Scribed by Furness, Rex

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1929
• Weight: 411 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000480104

✦ Synopsis

of process ccouotiiics imd the reco\wy of d l by-products kept the Lcl)liinc process nlivc iintil 1923, whilst the oompnrativc chcnpncss of icniiiiiioitin " soda iiindc possiblc by prolonged study ot all tlic clicuiicnl iind ctiginccring details of tlic original SoIvny proccss brought i t i i p i tho world's miirkcts in stcndily iticrcnsiiig iirnounts. Thc clcctrolytic process can clcvclop only SO fnr t i i wkets for cltlorirtc or cltloriiic dcrivntivcs ci~ii be fottiltl.

The uses of chloriite arc Icgion, for it is ctitploycd eit,lier such or iit coinbiiiiition for tcstilc ntid 1)iil)Cr blcncliitig, for \,iLtcr stcrilisntion, for Itydrocltlor.ic acid 1iiii1111fnctitrc, for ninking cltlorinntcd I I J Y ~~O C ~I ~~~O I I solvclits, and in miny otltcr ivoys. Used to protlttcc ctltylcnc chlorltydriit, iiti iiitcrtitctliiitc in the productkm of ethylctic glycol, it. Iiiity ~ISSIIIIIC its great iiti iitiportn tlcc in this country :IS it ]ins iloiic in Liincric:i. Sotliutn sulphnte or sitlt cnkc still Lcing wanted :itid Iicitig mnilc by the first stngc of t,hc IAeblnnc proccss, tltcrc is ncccssnrily ~~rotlitcctl sioitiItn~icottsl~ Inrge i i i i i o t t ~i t ~ of hydrocltloric iicitl, so tliiit, syittltctic Itytlrocltloric itcitl, made frow t h hytlroge~~ :I tid cliloriiic coming from t,hc clcctrolytic CCIIS, cnnttot, ti& ciirc of all the cliloritic ttiittlc, and evcti if tlic ccllttlosc-prorlttcitig iiidustrics coitic to absorli cltloritic, i t is prol)al)Ic thnt iili o,cr-1)roditetioti