A theoretical and practical treatise on the manufacture of sulphuric acid and alkali, Volume 1

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Gurney and Jackson, 1879
 

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Page 652 - 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 656 - A Handbook of British Birds, showing the distribution of the Resident and Migratory species in the British Islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants.
Page 97 - ... metamorphic clay slate, from twenty to thirty-six fathoms thick and extending to a length of 170 to 200 fathoms. The whole bed is filled with pure pyrites without appreciable gangue. These beds are found in a few places at two fathoms below the surface undecomposed and in a sandy condition easily got by pit work. In other places the zone of decomposition reaches from 10 to 50 fathoms downwards.

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