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IN the recent discussions on the best means of developing the colour industry in this country, reference has frequently been made to the duty charged upon pure methyl and ethyl alcohol, which are essential for certain products. Although the past and present stagnation is mainly due to other and much more deep-seated causes, the fact that the trade is still handicapped by a form of taxation which does not exist in Continental countries is one of the signs of the steady indifference of the Government to scientific industrial development of which Thomas Thomson so bitterly complained in his history of chemistry written nearly a century ago.
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Duty-Free Alcohol for Scientific Purposes . Nature 95, 11–12 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095011a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/095011a0