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THE

HONGKONG

CHEMISTRY & THE COMMUNITY

(Continued from Page 10.)

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932.

One Immediate effect was natur- ally an unprocedented demand for explosives of many different types, and later for many different chemi- cals and curious and unpleasant properties. At first, the demand" was met by the regular Government

SAFETY FIRST

N.Z. WANTS LAW TO DEAL WITH RIOTS.

Wellington, Apr. 19. Inted to benzine. The amount of and private factories but It was

Emergency powers such as wore toluene, however, in conl-tar, was soon evident that now and greatly assumed by the British govern- so small, that by auch a process, it enlarged plants would be required.ment in 1920 to deal with law- would be impossible to capture the When war broke out, T.N.T. had loseness are being sought by the indigo trade of the world, no, in just been officially adopted as a New Zealand Government under spite of the success, the process was service explosive but no facilities the terms

of the Public . Safety, deliberately scrapped.

existed for making it in any quan- Conservation Bill, introduced into More years of work followed, and tity. The total capacity of the the House of Representatives to- finally a process was devised, start country at that time was not more day. It aims at empowering the Ing from naphthaline, a cheap and than 20 tons per week. Something authorities to deal with outbreaks plentiful by-product of the gas mak- had to be done and done quickly, so of violence such as the riots in ing industry. What has boon the British chemists got to work

Auckland last weak. result? Germany has now practi-site was chosen near Oldbury and cally the indigo trade of the world s plant designed for an output of In her hands. It cost thirty years 250 tons per week. of unremitting work and the ex- penditure of something liko £1,000,000 sterling.

Chemists Specialising.

►

Making T.N.T

Nitrate,

The Bill follows the lines of the British Emergency Powers Bill,

Reuter.

80,000 of

a less

All Classes Catered for. Were time availablo I could say something on the many ways in which chemistry seeks to serve community. The chemist caters for all classes and in many different ways. He provides the medical men with radium, colloidal and now drugs and metals anaesthetice, the housewife with stainless steel, cutlery, fadelcsa curtains, and smokeless fuel. He provides the flapper with kiss- proof lipstick and artificial burn, to say nothing of now per- fumes, new eye-brow pencils and other "armament."(Laughter). Chemiatry supplies the motorist with better tyres, more efficient

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To get together and assemble a gasmask adopted, and complicated plant in the then dis these were made and shipped to organised state of the country's in-France-the whole thing in 27 To-day, the laboratory le taking dustry, in any reasonable. time, hours of the men engaged in an increasing part in Industrial pemed a hopeless proposition but the manufacture, of poison and work of all kinds. So wide has be the attempt was made. The first tear gas there is no time to speak. come the field of activity that and on the new alte was cut in Many were killed and others specialisation has taken place to an February, 1915, and exactly three seriously injured, and all suffered

man months later the first ton of T.N.T abominably: Though, in extraordinary extent. One now gives his life to the chemistry was ready and packed for delivery: spectacular way, they served their of paper, another to the chemistry In a very short time, the designed country well. of cocon, a third to the chemistry capacity of 250 tons per week had of cémont, a fourth to the chemistry been reached and exceeded. Later, the works at Queen's Ferry, near of petroleum, and so on,

There are still those who think Chester, wern completed, with an that a laboratory is a rather use output of 100 tons per day, less but somewhat ornamental add-

It might be thought that in Gov-the tion to an industrial plant. To erament factories erected under the these it may be said that if any stress of war, where the steadying laboratory falls to justify its exis- effect of shareholders and dividends tence, the sooner the staff are sack-were not at work, the factories ed and another eubstituted the would be run on extravagant lines. better. A properly equipped and However, a careful study of the staffed laboratory can be the salva-second costs report of the Depart tion of an industry. A manufacment of Explosives Supply will turer is reported to have said, "If show that yields and costs com- your bustness is going down or fail-pared favourably with those of any

privato factories. Ing

Some figures to progress, double your laboratory staff." Whether this will show the scale on which ex- should be taken literally is possibly plosives were turned out during doubtful, but the principle is right. those four years: Pieric Acid,

There is an idea in many quar-758,000 tons; T.N.T., 288,000 tons; lubricants, anti-knock petrol and "Chemical industries" that chemis. Cordite, 189,000 tons. try is of any use, but it is to be re-!

Emery for Lenses. membered that every substance is)

As an example of the indirect a chemical, and in the handling of

service rendered by individuals all substancea chemical considera-! tions are involved. Thus, iron and the following may be quoted. At atcel are chemicals. Porcelain and the outbreak glass aro chemicals. Cement, arose a very large demand for all bricks, points, varnishes, ink and kinds of optical instruments, tele

Chemists Motto. paper, meat and vegetables, coal, scopes, feld glasses, range-finders,

In the course of these very petroleum, rubber, cotton and silk gun sights, etc, and the British optical manufacturers found are all chemicals,

scrappy and disconnected remarks themselves short of emery for I have tried to give an idea of how lenae grinding. They only then chemists spend their time and at- To show the value of the labora- awoke to the fact that they had tempt to justify their existence. CHITRAL

an imported In tory to a so-called non-chemical boon dependent on

one direction, the chemist RANCHI frm, let us take the case of Messrs. foreign product.

serves the community well. He is †!*BANGALORE Three chemists in London set up

ди optimist. Lyons Limited, the caterers of Lon

IB, His motto don. They first realised the ad-what they called on Emary Fact- "Nothing is impossible," and every NALDERA vantages of possessing their own ory in an old basement where they now and then he does something laboratory in 1919 and started with worked with their electric fur- which goes some way, at any rate, a staff of four, one chief chemiet, anaces and wooden tubs. Their to justify the motto. He aims at senior and junior assistant, and one hands were cut to pieces by the increasing efficiency by cutting out laboratory cleaner. Two years coarse emery and they worked waste and saving time. One way later, in 1921, they had a staff of with three layers of turkish towel- of doing the latter is to cut out all eleven; in 1922 of 20, including ten ing round their heads to prevent unnecessary talking and that I senior men; in 1923 of 30, in 1924 the fine omery dust getting into propose to apply to the present TAKADA of 37; in 1926 of 45, in 1926 of 64; their lungs. Still, they managed situation. I will, therefore, onable SIRDHANA and in 1927, the last year for which to produce about 40 tons a week you to get on with something worth TILAWA I have figures, of 72. These figures and practically supplied the needs while by bringing these remarks to indicate fairly clearly that in the of the country during the war. a close and at once resuming my experience of large and success-The Government got out plans for reat-(Applause). ful business organisation, an cf-jan up-to-date emery factory but ficient laboratory is not an orna- it was not finished before mental luxury but a paying con-Armistice was signed. cern, and a necessary adjunct to their business activities.

Value of Laboratory.

War Work.

of the war

Poison Gas.

there

the

the engineer alloy steels and other structural materials with useful of a fow properties undreamt years ago. It has given the textile manufacturer a range of colours the rainbow, also artificial silk and, soon, we hope, artificial wool.

that out-vie

ed

Speaker Thanked.

From Hong-

8. 8.

Tons

kong (about)

RAWALPINDI "ALIPORE RANPURA 1*18OMALI

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H'burg. Rotterdam Antwerp & Hul) 15,000 21st May. Bombay, M'les & Ldon 17,000 4th June, Bombay, M'les & Lidon

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The speaker was beartily thank- NELLORE оп behalf of the Club by TANDA Rotarian W. Brown, who said that

NANKIN The introduction of poison gas he know just enough about Into warfare put more work on chemistry to appreciate the drift

to

I will refer briefly to another the chemical profession. When of Rotarian Dovey's remarks and to

its application direction in which chemistry alde gas was first used against British understand the community, and that is in con- troops in France no Immediate chemistry with which he had come nexion with war. In wartime the steps could be taken to protect into contact in one or two in- chemistry profession comes into them as the nature of the gas was dustries with which he had, at its own and British chemists have unknown. However,

sample various times, been in touch. every reason to be proud of the [was obtained and rushed to Lon- Rotarian Brown added his fm- work accomplished during the late den. It was analysed, a suitable pression was that the speaker's

lantidote devised, a simple type of paper was very good.-(Applause). )

war.

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