A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid and Alkali, with the Collateral Branches

Abstract

THE volumes before us, although bearing the above comprehensive title, in reality deal only with the manufacture of oil of vitriol, and together constitute vol. i. of the complete work. It is now upwards of a quarter of a century since this work was first published, and, thanks to the assiduity and painstaking zeal of its author, it still remains the standard treatise on the subject. Ten or a dozen years ago, at the time of the appearance, in fact, of the second edition of this work, it might have been supposed that all that need be known or stated with regard to a manufacture so highly specialised as that of oil of vitriol was already known, and was described in Dr. Lunge's classical work. But it is a striking- instance of the essentially progressive character of chemical science that, even in a branch of its application so well established as this, in which, under the stress of competition, some of the acutest intellects which have ever devoted themselves to chemical technology have laboured for years with a view to make it perfect, there should have arisen during the last ten or twelve years what is practically a revolution in the manufacture—a new departure, in fact, which bids fair to alter the whole complexion of the industry.

A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid and Alkali, with the Collateral Branches.

By George Lunge, Professor of Technical Chemistry in the Federal Polytechnic School, Zurich. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xxvii+1214. (London: Gurney and Jackson, 1903.) Price 2l. 12s. 6d.