CHEMISTRY’S OBJECTIVES.
SUBSTITUTE FOR. PETROL. SYNTHETIC CELLULOSE NEXT. Asked what he thought were the greatest immediate benefits which chemistry was likely to confer on the world, Professor Herbert R. Moody, a director of the College of Chemistry, New York, in an interview in London recently, said: — “I should place first a cheap and abundant substitute for petrol. It has Ibeen done in the laboratory and I believe it is coming in industry. Hydrocarbons can be made by getting- hydrogen from water and carbons from coal or wood and a cheaper and more abundant fuel than petrol will ,be produced. I saw them working on the problem in Milan.
“Next would be obtaining cellulose from chemical processes instead of from trees. We can already make sugar synthetically and an American Chemist has turned sugar into cellulose, so the synthetic production of cellulose cannot be far off. We shall’then ha ve chemical sources for clothing and paper and numerous other articles of daily importance.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4500, 4 September 1930, Page 4
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162CHEMISTRY’S OBJECTIVES. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4500, 4 September 1930, Page 4
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