PREFACE. In submitting this little Work for general approval, I may remark that its compilation has been a matter of no small trouble and difficulty, I have to thank many leading technical Chemists for their kind help. Manufacturers and The uses of Raw Materials, as applied to various trades, have not as far as I know been hitherto published, and it is obvious therefore that the utility of such information will be readily admitted by the Industrial Community. I have attempted in these pages to give the Commercial uses and users of the principal Chemicals and Industrial Materials, and in a simple non-technical form, alphabetically arranged, so that those interested may have at hand, a useful guide of practical value in the daily development of their business. I am of opinion that this book should, in many ways, facilitate trade and therefore no apology is needed for its publication. 39, CORPORATION STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 494ir0 CHARLES ARGLES. ACETATES See also under separate headings. CHEMICALS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, Calico Printing Dyeing Manufacture of Acetone Preparation of Paints and Colours Textile Industry Preserving Wood Manufacture of Acetic Acid Medicinal Purposes ACETONE Smokeless Powder Manufacture Perfumery Pharmacy Photography Dyeing Chemical Manufacture Production of Celluloid Articles Solvent of Gun Cotton and Celluloid Bodies Varnish Trade Lacquers Chloroform Absorbent for Acetylene Gas Leather and Tanning Trade Paper Manufacture Extracting Resin from Pure Rubber Manufacture of Dynamite ACETONE PEROXIDE ...