The Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid and Alkali with the Collateral Branches: a Theoretical and Practical Treatise

Abstract

THESE handsome volumes, which we owe to the tireless industry of the emeritus professor of technical chemistry in the Federal Polytechnicum of Zurich, bring the history of the development of alkali manufacture and of its associated industries down to its latest phase. During the dozen or more years which have elapsed since the appearance of the last edition of Dr. Lunge's monumental work, considerable changes have occurred in this department of chemical technology which bid fair, in the fulness of time, completely to revolutionise its methods. A, significant feature of modern manufacturing industry is the ever-growing application of electrical energy to its processes, and in no field of production has this application been more fruitful in consequences than in that of industrial chemistry. Although there is, even now, scarcely a single section of applied chemistry which has not felt the influence, directly or indirectly, of this form of energy, it is almost a truism to assert that we are only at the threshold of the new departure.

The Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid and Alkali with the Collateral Branches: a Theoretical and Practical Treatise.

By Prof. G. Lunge. Third edition. Vol. iii., Ammonia-Soda, Various Processes of Alkali-making, and the Chlorine Industry. Pp. xix + 764. (London: Gurney and Jackson, 1911.) Price 30s. net.