SULPHUR IN SMOKE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 15

SULPHUR IN SMOKE

— »- — rr? ) Saving Methods Discussed . ] LONDON, April 7. 1 In one year as mpqh good sulphpr ia smoked upwards and lost in thq qky from the world'a smelter fur-i paea* as can he miped ont of the rick§St d£9o§it§ in Texas and Sicily, gays the News Chroniele. NOW; sulphpr, put • in tlie dog's water i» good for his health, and sulgjiur went }ntp thq maiju?|ptufq of the wood pulp put of which thq papcr you are rehding was mpde, and sulphur ig pqedpd tp btqagii yppr cjothes and other gdods; bnt sujphur ip the air is op§ of thp pxpst uppieasAPt pom, pppent's pf the disea§p=p?ingipg fogs pf pur jndustrial towns. We liavq to huy sulphur from abroad at the same time as we pollute the home atmosphere with pnough of it tq makp oprselves independent oi foreign supplipp. But now cpmes the race for rearmament; ahd sulphur is needed fpr explosjvesJ1 WWt we do. for it in timp of war? '/ >*rry Scientific Research Imperial Chemieals have pooled their researeh results with those of Swedish scientists and have discovr erpd how to save this waste." They extraet it in the ferm of suh phnr djoxide apd get 26 tons a day at their works at Billihgham- • Froih this pomes five tons of pare sulphiirt Apart from the value of this rei ppve'red weajth is the subsegyent cieansjjfg pf the gir, Batersea Rowpu Statipn ij §pon to have fpuy qhim^ peys inittad pf thp prese'nt twp; ih*rp need he no suJphurous fumes from any of them. .