The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-01-10
StIPHURIC ACID AND CIVIL.
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Hendrick gives a glimpse at the all
embracing uses of sulpnuric acid that
is interesting. Whom YOU get up IN
the morning. he writes. and turn on
the water for your bath. YOU use y
nic~kel-plated faucet which required
sriphuric acid IN ns manufacture
Your tub. II IL be enameled. has met
sulphuriv acid before II became w,in.
il IL. and IL IL II an fashioned one
OF tin. plated On sheet copper. II need
I'd even more sulphuric acid before II
took It's place in civilization as a bath
tub. The water in which you bathc
has PROBABLY been treated with SUI
| PLAT. OF copper to clear II of algac.
Tho towel with which Won dry YOUR
SELF has met sulphuric acid before You
hough, j.. aud the soapmakot possibly
foind 1t necessary to use some In the
| preparation or your soap. The bristics
OF your hair brush have been treated
WI u. and the back of your brush
as well az your comb. " theN be 80
| celluloid. could moi he produced with
! ont a.. Your razor. before u reached
IT. present high estate, has very like
" been pickl"d In sulphuric acid after
1t Mas annealcd.
n you put on your underwear yoi
uul recall that the bleachcr and the
dyer used sulphuric acid on the
thread before II WIS knit or woven
or upon 'hc fabric aitcrward Az
YOU button up your outer garments
you may be reminded Also that SUI
phuric acid was needed in securing
the wool IN making the dye and IN
the process of dyeing the cloth.
The button maker needed tome bc-
!iore your buttons were complete. The
tanner needed some ~ making the
leather tor your shoes. and IL h also
used to produce shoe polish. The
ishion upon which YOU may rect
,your pious knees N your devotions
has met sluphuric acid in n way cr
mother more han once before II,
o.. he'd It's present dignity.
At breakfast YOU cup and snucer
may have come into being without
lths aid ~ .s~nlphurle acid. but only
provided they are plain white without
decoration Gilt. To produce the con-
stituents of aqua regia, which dis.
%solves the gold. sulphuric acid is useu.
1.-THE silver of which your spoon, knife
land fork are nae may come from
. sulphuric acid works which has FIRST
silver plated they were plated in Il
sulphuric acid bath. me farmer who
raised tn. wh.a OF which you roils
are made probably used acid phoS
phate on his land to encourage the
wheat to grow. Acid phosphate "
phosphate rock and suiphuric acid.
The paper maker needed some sui
phonated aniline blue To tint your
moThing paper even IL ne used ~
sulphuric acid AZ some point in rs
lnk that IN innocent of the touch Of
sluphuric acid NJ some point In rs
history. II you eat buckwheai cakes
with syrup the syrup needed u. ana
las FOR your artificial light, II YOU get
up early nough 10 need II, you wouid
ne driven hack to candles II II were
I not for tlts ,rlIn.t 4 nagHtI IN
the refining Of kerosene and gasoline,
land as Tor your electric light. brought
To you by currents of electricity
Through copper -wh"rc would
the electric industry he without cop
per And where would the cnpper
Industry be- without the electrulytic
pr,oess OF refining which requires
enormous quantities of sulphur.c
acid II would he pnralyzcd.
mcnt Of indusiry by the Ia X of Ger
man dyes, but this h a nere bagp-
t.iie compared with IA" general
brcak-up that wouid follow a dearth
81 s%ulphnfic acid. We can neither -
to var and have smokelcss powder
nor can We live IN peace without a.,
Wherever YOU GO IN civilization you
cannot get out 81 IL path You ma
never see u. you may rot know IT,
qualities and it, very rcImafkabl.
chemical personality. ana you had
better no touch Il, but almost invar-
ably IL has been around before YOU.
An oil This will explain tut a ira'-
u6n Of the ali-pervasiye ubiqnity Il
|,ulphuric acid In the arts of h W"
cali civilization, And is us. Is grow
Ing along with the Development OF
chemical Industry ana the science ~
have animated that sulphurie
tr..d is the old horse Of chemistry and
that soG is the old mare. Then there
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