A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid and Alkali: With the Collateral Branches, Volume 1

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Gurney and Jackson, 1879 - Alkalai industry and trade

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Page 656 - For making sulphate of soda (salt cake) and hydrochloric acid, and therefore ultimately for soda ash, bleaching powder, soap, glass, and innumerable other products. Further, for superphosphates and other artificial manures. These two applications probably consume nine-tenths of all the sulphuric acid produced . Further applications are for preparing sulphurous, nitric, phosphoric, hydrofluoric, boric, carbonic, chromic, oxalic, tartaric, citric, acetic, and stearic acids; in preparing phosphorus,...
Page 83 - Government, in 1838, being induced to grant a monopoly for the exportation of Sicilian sulphur to the Marseilles firm of Taix and Co.

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