Abstract
THE term ‘organic solvent’ has acquired an altogether new meaning during the past year or so in connexion with the various sections of the plastic industry, particularly cellulose lacquer and artificial silk. The older solvents like acetone have been manufactured by new methods in much greater quantities and at much lower prices; newer solvents are being made and applied to industry all the time, so that, as is often said, what were last year's laboratory curiosities are this year sold in tank waggons. Progress in the new field on the manufacturing side has been largely due to the use of processes involving catalysts, which have led to new syntheses from simple raw materials such as alcohol.
Solvents.
By Dr. Thos. H. Durrans. (Monographs on Applied Chemistry, Vol. 4.) Second and revised edition. Pp. xv + 180. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1931.) 10s. 6d. net.marks.
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A., E. Chemistry. Nature 128, 958–959 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128958d0
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