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...nitrates division of the Ordnance Department, and in this position has been studying the task of putting the large nitrogen fixation plants in this country in such permanent shape that they can be used in times of peace and will be ready to turn out an adequate supply of nitric acid in case of another...
Professor Richards then stated the need for America to take a leading part in the manufacture of many articles such as dyestuffs, the new varieties of steel, alkalis and acids--especially nitric acid--with their wide bearing on all processes. "We have already," he said, "made great studies in the last three years, but much remains to be done...
...research laboratories of the General Electric Company and the Du Pont Powder Company and many similar smaller laboratories show. This research has led to such results as the discovery of carborundum, the artificial production of indigo and caoutchouc, the development of the coal-tar industry, the electrical production of nitric acid from the air, and the practical synthesis of ammonia from its elements...
...rumored that the subject of the next Senior Forensic will be : " "Did the salt-pillar into which Lot's wife was turned contain sodium or nitric oxide?" References in the Library...
...Nitrate Battery gives forth no fumes, and is perfectly clean, is more constant than the Bunsen, and of about the same strength. In the glass cell are used sulphuric acid and water, with zinc; and in the porous cup gas carbon and a saturated solution of ammonic nitrate in nitric acid. The important improvements made by Professor Gibbs in the way we have indicated will probably result in a very general substitution of the Ammonic Nitrate batteries in place of the inferior kinds...