Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — Caustic Soda. [ARTICLE]

Caustic Soda.

The prominence o’ electricity in chemn processes is again brought forward I - the announcement of the discovery , a new electric proce * for obtaining ■a i stic soda, chlorine and other <t omi rJioial chemicals ir-uu salt water. Kl-ctro-chemical indu tries, alrea ly ell established, include such im or ant i an- hes as the reduction of aiuminu n tnd aluminum alioys, bleaching, tani ng, and tfie extraction of metals from •re. Should this new process prove holly successful, it is expected to reluce the prioe of these commercial ieml als one-half. The water of the ea will then be the “raw material” from filch these products are derive 1, and tariff discussion about them can be topped.