قراءة كتاب Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries
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Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries
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de Nemours Company; Milton Whitney of the U.S. Bureau of Soils; Dr. H.N. McCoy; K.F. Kellerman of the Bureau of Plant Industry.
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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 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 |
| Plantation rubber | 160 |
| Forest rubber | 160 |
| In making garden hose the rubber is formed into a tube by the machine on the right and coiled on the table to the left | 161 |
| The rival sugars | 176 |
| Interior of a sugar mill showing the machinery for crushing cane to extract the juice | 177 |
| Vacuum pans of the American Sugar Refinery Company | 177 |
| Cotton seed oil as it is squeezed from the seed by the presses | 200 |
| Cotton seed oil as it comes from the compressors flowing out of the faucets | 201 |
| Splitting coconuts on the island of Tahiti | 216 |
| The electric current passing through salt water in these cells decomposes the salt into caustic soda and chlorine gas | 217 |
| Germans starting a gas attack on the Russian lines | 224 |
| Filling the cannisters of gas masks with charcoal made from fruit pits—Long Island |