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CHEMISTRY & THE COMMUNITY
(Continued from Papo 2.)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932.
material facts, Whlio philosophers argued as nature of the universo
ancient CONSIGNEES” NOTICE. to tho and of
matter, the chemists were bending THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD. over their smoky fires and watching
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ANTWERP, LONDON and STRAITS, called them, "Booty emperies," but they got results. They did not dospise the philosophical chair but The Steamship, they placed it in the laboratory.
use
Live tartaric acids, he was urged to study the chemistry of fermonta- tion, a process which loomed so largely in the industry of his native
Painstaking Work. of study country. From the
During the search for the Phillo- ferments and yeast he went on to that of bacteria, and the discovery sopher's Stone which was to con- of their pathogenic effects was vert base metal into gold, and the
result. the
Pasteur's results Elixir of Life, which was to pro aroused the interent of Lister, and long life indefinitely, careful paina- the development, firat of antiseptic taking work was done resulting and later of aseptic surgery, result-in a wealth of chemical discoveries. ed.
Nearly all the present-day products Organic Chemistry.
of the heavy chemical industry such sodium car- Through the growth of organic 48 sulphuric acid, nitric acid, chemistry during the latter part of hydrochloric acid,
chemista were bonnte, and caustic soda were dis- the 19th century, canbled to contribute more and covered during that period and more to an accurate knowledge of turned into serious industrial use. For centuries the chief contribu physiological processes which, in
essentially tion of chemistry to industry was in Brc nature, their
The work of the the discovery of new substances, of accurate chemien onCA.
Emil but with the chemist German greut Fischer, on the molecular structure quantitative methods and advanced of the sugars, paved the way for theory during the 19th century, a beginning to be made into the chemistry began to take a hand in proper understanding of carbo-the control of industry. Manu facturers wanted to know why went hydrate metabolism in the body.
processes
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was his pains-mediately seen. Wasteful methods monumental work
into the were eliminated, ingredients were investigation taking synthesis of all organic arsenical mixed in proper proportions, raw compounds, which resulted in the materials were examined for harm. andful Impurities, temperatures and discovery of salvaraan
eosalvarsan, the most successful pressures were measured and con drugs for the treatment of syphilis
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trolled, the material used for con- etrueting the plant was overimuled to avoid metallic contamination, wante by-products were converted New Branch Developed.
into useful substances and porer During the past twenty years, a
final products were obtained. branch of chemistry,
Under exact chemical control, Biochemistry, las developed.
were the final products Workers in biochemistry are apply not only ing to physiological processes the purer but much more uniform, a methods and data obtained in inpoint of very great importance organic, organic, physical and when the final product of one in- dustry becomes the raw material colloid chemistry. Its greatest con- of another. tribution lies in its application of
The Valueless Made Valuable. mathematical chemical theory to
Further, by improved processes. bodily procesBCS.
To deal with biological in-it was found possible to make use vestigations, where, very frequent-of raw materials which had pre- amall amounts ofviously been looked upon as value- ly, only material
are available, suitable less owing to the presence of some analytical methods have been work-serious Impurity difficult
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the deter. Aliminate For years, iron ores con. mination of the sugar in blood staining phosphoro regarded highly important in many cases. as useless to the steel industry. The amount usually present is up Then Chemists found that By cent. Usingning the Bessemer Converter proximately one per
a busic dolomite lining modern methods, it is possible to with make a fairly accurate determina-instead of with an acid silica one, tion of the sugar in a single drop that these cheap phosphoric iron of blood. The development of ores could be converted into good similar accurate chemical methods steel, and, furthermore, that the for the determination of the non-slag from the converter, containing protein nitrogen, the creatinine and nearly all the phosphorus, could the tric neid in the blood, has led find a to a far better understanding of fertiliser, renal diseREC.
to
market as 21 valuable
up
With the development of orstanie chemistry, and increasing know- New Drugs.
ledge of the atomic structure of Chemistry is constantly provid- many organic substances, camo these to build drugs for the medical attempts ing new
Instead of the old molecules, leading to the success- practitioner. Plant extracts of uncertainful synthesis of many substances from strength, the pure alkaloid or other previously obtained only netive principle is now available for animal and vegetable sources. him; a substance of known strength and chemical purity and of known
activity, ne physiological
may
Synthetic Indigo.
The classical example is that of now know exactly what he is giving indigo. Indigo, which is closely his patient. The large chemical related to the wond of the ancient firms are pouring out such a stream Britons, was, until fifty years ago, of new synthetic drugs on to the obtained only from the Indigo plant market that, at the present time, and the bulk of it was produced in chemistry has the supply certainly exceeds the de-India. To-day, mand. Still, they are all useful transferred that industry to Ger- additions to the available equlp-many. meat for the fight against disease.
After Von Bayer, in a series of Turning from matters of health masterly researches, had worked to mattern of business, we find that out the structure of the Indigo the connexion between chemistry molecule, fifteen years of patient and Industry is older than that be work were put in by the research and medicine, chemists of the Badische Aniline tween chemistry From the earliest timea, chemical und Soda Fabrica, with the object producing the substanco discovery has led to Industrial de- of
A method WILS velopment. Chemists, as a scienti-synthetically.
ac group, can claim that although found for producing. it from the they have been intensely interested substance toluene, a substance oc- in the theoretical side of their work eurring in coal-tar, and closely re
hard to they have kept close
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