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Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Creative Chemistry, by Edwin E. Slosson
Title: Creative Chemistry
Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries
Author: Edwin E. Slosson
Release Date: November 24, 2005 [eBook #17149]
Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CREATIVE CHEMISTRY***
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The Century Books of Useful Science
CREATIVE CHEMISTRY
DESCRIPTIVE OF RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES
BY
EDWIN E. SLOSSON, M.S., PH.D.
LITERARY EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT, ASSOCIATE IN COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
Author of "Great American Universities," "Major Prophets of Today," "Six Major Prophets," "On Acylhalogenamine Derivatives and the Beckmann Rearrangement," "Composition of Wyoming Petroleum," etc.
WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
Copyright, 1919, by
THE CENTURY CO.
Copyright, 1917, 1918, 1919, by
THE INDEPENDENT CORPORATION
Published, October, 1919
From "America's Munitions"THE PRODUCTION OF NEW AND STRONGER FORMS OF STEEL IS ONE OF THE GREATEST TRIUMPHS OF MODERN CHEMISTRY
The photograph shows the manufacture of a 12-inch gun at the plant of the Midvale Steel Company during the late war. The gun tube, 41 feet long, has just been drawn from the furnace where it was tempered at white heat and is now ready for quenching.
TO MY FIRST TEACHER
PROFESSOR E.H.S. BAILEY
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
AND MY LAST TEACHER
PROFESSOR JULIUS STIEGLITZ
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
CONTENTS
| I | THREE PERIODS OF PROGRESS | 3 |
| II | NITROGEN | 14 |
| III | FEEDING THE SOIL | 37 |
| IV | COAL-TAR COLORS | 60 |
| V | SYNTHETIC PERFUMES AND FLAVORS | 93 |
| VI | CELLULOSE | 110 |
| VII | SYNTHETIC PLASTICS | 128 |
| VIII | THE RACE FOR RUBBER | 145 |
| IX | THE RIVAL SUGARS | 164 |
| X | WHAT COMES FROM CORN | 181 |
| XI | SOLIDIFIED SUNSHINE | 196 |
| XII | FIGHTING WITH FUMES | 218 |
| XIII | PRODUCTS OF THE ELECTRIC FURNACE | 236 |
| XIV | METALS, OLD AND NEW | 263 |
| READING REFERENCES | 297 | |
| INDEX | 309 |
A CARD OF THANKS
This book originated in a series of articles prepared for The Independent in 1917-18 for the purpose of interesting the general reader in the recent achievements of industrial chemistry and providing supplementary reading for students of chemistry in colleges and high schools. I am indebted to Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, and to Karl V.S. Howland, its publisher, for stimulus and opportunity to undertake the writing of these pages and for the privilege of reprinting them in this form.
In gathering the material for this volume I have received the kindly aid of so many companies and individuals that it is impossible to thank them all but I must at least mention as those to whom I am especially grateful for information, advice and criticism: Thomas H. Norton of the Department of Commerce; Dr. Bernhard C. Hesse; H.S. Bailey of the Department of Agriculture; Professor Julius Stieglitz of the University of Chicago; L.E. Edgar of the Du Pont