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Vol. 9, No. 20 Chinese to M a k e Acids
Emanations The Multiple Engineer 1 AIR—"The So τι of a Gambolier" Who is the man designs our cars with judgment, skill, and care? Who leaves it t o the service m a n to keep them in repair? Who estimates their useful life a t just about a year? The bearing-wearing, gearing-tearing Auto Engineer. 2 Who thinks w i t h o u t his product w e would all b e in the lurch? W h o has a heathen idol which he designates Research ? W h o tints the creeks, perfumes the air, and makes the landscape drear? The stink-evolving, grass-dissolving Chemi cal Engineer. W h o penalizes zinc and steals his silver and his lead? W h o is i t that t h e farmer likes t o bang upon the head ? W h o poisons every living thing that happens to be near? The sulfur-belching, miner-welching Smelter Engineer. W h o is t h e m a n who'll draw a plan for anything you desire From a transatlantic liner to a hairpin made o f wire? With"ifs" and "ands," "howe'ers" and "buts" who makes his meaning clear? The work-disdaining, fee-retaining Consulting Engineer. 5 Who takes the pleasure out of life and makes existence hell? Who'll fire a real good-looking one because s h e cannot spell? Who substiv. tes a dictaphone for coral-tinted ear? The penny-chasing, [dollar-wasting Efficiency Engineer. W h o gives us music by t h e yard, a n d makes the ether ring With bangs and howls and groans and growls while advertisers sing? W h o sells u s all a lot of junk a hundred times too dear? The beat-inducing, squea.l-producing Radio Engineer. W h o is t h e man who melts at will any rock or stone? Who'll make a ferro alloy out of hair pins, junk, and bone? W h o dumps h i s slag on a l l t h e streets when limits get too near? The electrode-burning, language- learning Metallurgical Engineer. 8 Who is the m a n who'll operate most any kind of junk? Who'll carry out reactions which the chemists say are bunk? Who takes ten thousand amperes a n d leads them by the ear? T h e p o w e r - u s i n g , gas-diffusing Electro chemical Engineer. 1 Reprinted from "Chemistry in S o n g " written by chemists of t h e Western New Y o r k Section for use in connection with t h e 82nd m e e t i n g of t h e
AMERICAN CHEMICAL S O C I E T Y , h e l d
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China has awakened to t h e fact that she is largely dependent upon foreign countries for sulfuric and nitric acids and sulfate of chloride. Since these three commodities are essential for the operation of arsenals, besides being important in t h e industrial life of the nation, China has suddenly realized that s h e would be helpless if Japan and the other powers were t o stop shipments. A t the suggestion of t h e government, a group of Chinese capitalists i n Shanghai has organized the Kaicheng Acid Mfg. Works and h a s begun the building of a plant which, in its initial stages, will have an output of 18 tons of sulfuric acid a day. If the enterprise thrives, the manufacture of nitric acid and sulfate of chloride will be engaged in. 1
Reprinted from the New York Times.
Standard Sample T h e U. S. Bureau of Standards has prepared a standard sample of 18 Cr-8 Ni (KA2S) steel of the following composition: carbon 0.060, manganese 0.-554, phosphorus 0.010, sulfur 0.012, silicon 0.759, copper 0.056, nickel 8.44, chromium 17.54, vana dium 0.044. This standard is N o . 101 in the series and costs $3 per sample of 150 grams. The sample m a y be paid for in ad vance or be sent parcel post C. O. D . in the United States and its possessions. All foreign shipments require prepayment, together with 20 cents additional postage. A complete list of standard samples, analyses, fees, etc., are given in Bureau of Standards Supplement to Circular 25, which can be obtained free of charge upon application to the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C . The fall meeting of the Akron Rubber Group will be held on November 2 a t the Akron University Club. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p . M., after which t w o papers from the laboratories of the du Pont Company will be read.
Opium Fellowship Endowed A fellowship in alkaloid chemistry has been endowed a t the University of Virginia by George Merck, of Merck & Co., Inc., in t h e hope that through such investigations a substance will be found having the physiological action of an opium derivative without addiction properties.
Carbon Dioxide Gas Well Discovered T h e discovery of a well near Estancia, Ν . Μ . , which has been yielding 400,000 cubic feet of carbon dioxide gas daily, is con sidered b y t h e owners, the J - B. W i t t Oil & Gas Co., a s evidence t h a t the underground supply of the g a s is sufficiently large to warrant the drilling of other wells to obtain a supply for com mercial use. The Ëstancia Valley Carbon Dioxide C o . has been formed a s a subsidiary and has begun the drilling of a second well. A large plant will b e constructed for converting the carbon dioxide into liquid t o be used for refrigeration. W i t h the drilling of other wells in the n e w field, a sufficient supply of the gas should be made available for piping t o a number of towns and cities of New Mexico, southern Colorado, and northwestern Texas.
Toncan Iron Tin Plate The Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown, Ohio, has announced a n e w product developed b y its research workers—Toncan iron tin plate. T h i s i s the only tin plate with a rust-resisting base on the market today, and c a n b e supplied in all base weights and sizes. I t is particularly adapted t o those branches of industry identified with c a n n i n g a n d food products which require a rust-resisting tin plate. The American Manganese Steel Co., Chicago Heights, Ill., has recently added the type C pump t o its line for handling abrasive materials. N e w features of this pump include bearings which are interchangeable i n t h e field—either sleeve or antifriction types being available—lubrication required only on main bearings, and easy adjustment o f impeller clearance and main bearings without dismantling. J . 0. Emerson, editor of t h e National Board of Foremanship, has become manager of t h e industrial division of t h e Elliott Service Co., 242 West Fifty-fifth S t . , N e w York, Ν . Y., succeeding R. T . Solensten, who has been made vice president of the com p a n y and will direct research in industrial educational methods.
