Chemical Foundations. The alkali industry in Britain to 1926
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- Author(s) Warren, Kenneth
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1980
- Pages 208pp; illus
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name British Library
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- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly account of the rise in the early 19th century and subsequent decline of the alkaline industry. Concludes on formation of ICI Ltd in 1926. Chapters cover, inter alia, early demand for alkali; processes in mineral based alkali manufacture; mineral raw materials; alkali economics and location; minor centres of the industry and the Scottish industry; the industry on Tyneside; ditto Merseyside; the industry and the transformation of South Lancashire; decline of the Tyneside industry; United Alkali Co Ltd formation and development; electrolytic process; international framework - markets and competition