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Chemists as Magicians of Modern Industry
An analysis of how industrial chemists convert wastes and by products into valuable goods, boosting dyes, fuels, paper, cork, tannin, and textiles. It credits scientists with turning slag, sawdust, seeds, and plant by products into thriving industries, from synthetic dyes to canning and nitrogen from air, shaping America’s wartime and postwar economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Tyre
Milady
Hitsam
America
Cornell
Vieini i Reso
Eas
California
Malaga
Appalachian Mountains
Spain
Portugal
France
Algeria
Eke
Cork Oaks
Florida
Paratus
Corn Prod Refining Company
Right
William Henry Perkins
Germany
Deutschland
Count de Chardonnet
Paris