The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1916-06-14
MAGIC OF A LIQUID
Sulphuric Acid Plays a Big Part
IN Our Daily Life.
ITS LOSS WOULD BE TRAGIC.
We Could Hardly Live Without tho
7elp Of This Wonderful Agent Of
Science That Makes Possible MANY
OF Our Arts and Industries.

| ~~' ''at tIaEeS foSSIbie Many
Of Our Arts and Industries.
When you get up in the morning and
turn on the water for your bath you
use Il nickel plated faucet which re
quircd sulphnric acid in its munufac.
ture. Your tub. If 1t be c,mmelcd
mas met suphurc acid before it be-
came what 1t Is, and if it is an old
1aShloned one of tin, plated on sheet
copper, 1t needed even more sulDhuric
aclu Dcforc 1t took its place in civilian
ton as Il hathtub
The water in which you bathc has
probably been treated with sulphatc of
copper to clear it or algae. The towel
with which you dry yourself has met
sulphuric acid before you bought it.
ana the soapmnkcr possibly found 1t
necessary to use some In the prepnra.
tion of your soap.
The bristlcs of your hairbrush have
been treated with it. The bac,, of
your hairbrush as well as your comb.
II both be Of cclluloid. could not be
produced without it. Your razor be.
Iorc 1t reached its present high estate
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phuric acid after it was anncacd.
AS YOU put on your underwear, SAYS
writer In Commerce ana Finance,
you may recall that the Dlcachcr and
the dyer used su!phuric acid on the
thread before 1t was knit or woven
or upon the fabric artcrwnrd.
as you button up your outer gar.
mcntS yon may he reminded also that
Suii'iiutic acid VAS EccIcd in securing
the wool. in making tho dye and in
the process OF dycing the cloth
Inc button maker needed some be.
fore your buttons were completes. The
tanner needed some in making the
iealhcr Tor your shoes. ana 1t ia also
used 70 produce shoe polish. Tho c,lsI.
ion upon which YOU may rrSt your
lloNS knees IN your dcvo;ioMs has met
s'lphllic acid in one way or another
more than once before it reached its
present dignity.
At breakfast your cup AID saucer
may have come into being without the
aid OF Sulphuric acid, but only provid.
ell they are plain white without deco.
rative gilt. TO produce the constit,l.
ents Of aqua rcgia, which dissolved
the gold. Sulphuric acid IS used. The
silver OF which your spoon, knife and
FORK are made may come from n sui.
phuric acid works which has first burn.
cd the ore. while II they are silver
plated they were plated IN Il sulphuric
acid bath
The farmer who raised the wheat OF
"hich your rolls are made probably
used acid Phosphate on his land to
encourage the wheat to grow. Acid
phosphate is phosphate rock ard sui.
phuric acid.
The paper maker needed some sui.
phonatcd milinc blue to tint your
morning pnrcr even If he used no
sulphitc pulp. ANA it would be rarc
INK that is innocent of the touch of
sVlp!llic acid at some point I'm IFS
history.
II yen eat buckwhCut cakes Will,
strip the sirup needed 1t. ami as for
your artificial light, if YOU got up early
enough to need it. you would bc driven
PACK I" candles if Ii were not for this
product. II is needed in the refining
or Kerosene and gasoline. and as for
your electric light. brouyht To you by
currents OF electricity through coppcl
wires. whore would the electric indus.
Try be without copper? And where
would the copper industry he without
the elcctrolytic process Of refining
which requires enormous quantities OF
sulphuric acid? 1t would he para.
lyZcd
We have heard OF the cmbarrass
ment OF industry by the lack of Ger.
man dyes. but this is mere bagatcllc
compared with the general breakup
that would follow dcarth of SULPHUR
ic acid. We can neither 90 to wal
ana have smokeicSs powder nor can
we live in peace without it. Whcr
ever yon go in civilization you cannot
get out OF its path
You may never see 1t, you NAV not
know It's qualities and its very remark
able chemical personality. and you had
better not touch it, but almost invaria
bly, 1t has been around before you.
All Of this will explain but a frac
ton of the all pcrvasivc usefulness OF
sulphuric acid In the arts OF what VIC
call civilization. And it's use is con
stnntly growing along with the devcl
opmcnt of chemical industry and tho
science of agriculture.
Origin Of "GentIeman.r
1t Is quite commonly held TINT IN,