Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — Electro-Chemistry. [ARTICLE]

Electro-Chemistry.

It is remarkable how the conception of the scope of chemistry has recently .grown in! the general public’s mind, after chemistry had been synonymous with drug stores so long to so many people. Everyone is now acquainted with at least one other field of chemical endeavor —dyestuff s—and thus chemistry has made a clear advance of lOC per cent in popular estlhiadon. Among technical men, however, it is electro-chemistry that is now attracting greatest attention. Of coui-se, as Long as P’araday’s law has beer, taught in schools those who had to learn it knew of electro-chemistry. But for many its scope was restricted to bat- ■ t erM-sf antFphttiflg. Natoraßy-eleetr leak engineers knew better, as they had to buy their copper from the electrolytic copper refinery, and the generating capacity of an electrolytic refinery is sufficiently impressive to gain the respect of any engineer. No wonder that many a man who had been interested in lighting and traction systems is now attracted by electro-chemistry, which has no such sources of trouble as a public service commission.—Metallurgical and Chemical engineering.