ISBN: 9781130241099

RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 148 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.… Mehr…

RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 148 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: . . . of aluminium, the cost for metallic sodium alone would be 17. 50 per pound of aluminium produced by its use. So the idea of St. Clair Deville and Louis Napoleon of giving to the world the new metal aluminium for every-day use was never realized, simply because they could not devise a cheap method of making sodium. This was one of the first problems to which Mr. Castner devoted his attention, and he was wonderfully successful. He first invented a chemical process, which was a great success, and produced sodium at a very small price; in fact, so small a price that he immediately captured the entire market for aluminium, as he was able by means of his cheap sodium to supply aluminium at a low price. I have been informed that before Mr. Castner began to manufacture aluminium the lowest price at which it had been, sold was g10. 00 per pound, and when Castner devised his sodium process he was able to manufacture aluminium at a cost of 1. 00 per pound. This revolutionized the whole industry, and aluminium could now be used for a hundred different purposes. This process of Castners is an extremely beautiful one, and it is a marvel that when Friedrich VVoehler, of Goettingen, St. Clair Deville, of France, and many other distinguished chemists had sought for years to devise a method of making cheap sodium not one of them had ever succeeded in working out Castners method. Castner threw aside the old processes and made a new departure entirely. He substituted for the charcoal, carbide of iron. The difficulty had been, when attempts were made to use caustic soda, that the charcoal used, being lighter than the soda, floated on the surface and failed to effect its reduction. Castner used carbide of iron as a reducing agent, finding that the carbide of iron in the mixtur. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub.com<

ISBN: 9781130241099

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 148 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Mehr…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 148 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: . . . of aluminium, the cost for metallic sodium alone would be 17. 50 per pound of aluminium produced by its use. So the idea of St. Clair Deville and Louis Napoleon of giving to the world the new metal aluminium for every-day use was never realized, simply because they could not devise a cheap method of making sodium. This was one of the first problems to which Mr. Castner devoted his attention, and he was wonderfully successful. He first invented a chemical process, which was a great success, and produced sodium at a very small price; in fact, so small a price that he immediately captured the entire market for aluminium, as he was able by means of his cheap sodium to supply aluminium at a low price. I have been informed that before Mr. Castner began to manufacture aluminium the lowest price at which it had been, sold was g10. 00 per pound, and when Castner devised his sodium process he was able to manufacture aluminium at a cost of 1. 00 per pound. This revolutionized the whole industry, and aluminium could now be used for a hundred different purposes. This process of Castners is an extremely beautiful one, and it is a marvel that when Friedrich VVoehler, of Goettingen, St. Clair Deville, of France, and many other distinguished chemists had sought for years to devise a method of making cheap sodium not one of them had ever succeeded in working out Castners method. Castner threw aside the old processes and made a new departure entirely. He substituted for the charcoal, carbide of iron. The difficulty had been, when attempts were made to use caustic soda, that the charcoal used, being lighter than the soda, floated on the surface and failed to effect its reduction. Castner used carbide of iron as a reducing agent, finding that the carbide of iron in the mixtur. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<