munroe: consumption of acids 



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litigation where the rule of " principal use" obtains; in deter- 

 mining tariffs and levying taxes; in fixing freight rates; in manu- 

 facturing and other operations where the question of substitution 

 may arise; and in other special instances. In the investigation 

 work of the census itself such data furnishes additional checks 

 on the returns. 



I first dealt with sulphuric acid the results being published in 

 Bulletin 92, p. 23, "Chemicals and allied products," for 1905; 



TABLE I 

 Consumption of Muriatic or Hydrochloric Acid 



PRODUCTION 



Consumption 



Bleaching materials 



Chrome tannage 



Cleaning fagades 



Disinfectants 



Dyestuffs 



Fine chemicals 



General chemicals 



Glucose making 



Glue making 



Olive curing 



Paper making 



Pickling metals 



Reducing and refining of metals 



Soap making 



Soldering 



Textile manufacture 



Washing bone black 



Washing sand and clay 



All other uses 



1900 



Pounds 



131,229,012 



1900 

 Pounds 



908,000 



5,000,000 



3,000,000 



2,500,000 



6,559,464 



1,146,697 



3,488,000 



10,846,828 



38,186,338 



2,500,000 



3,000,000 



27,000,000 



15,357,680 



400,000 



4,000,000 



6,000,000 



1,500,000 



1,500,000 



1,336,005 



1905 

 Pounds 



188,538,396 



1905 

 Pound* 



1,004,000 



6,000,000 



4,000,000 



3,200,000 



7,632,027 



1,181,078 



13,096,827 



12,283,466 



61,795,150 



3,500,000 



4,000,000 



30,000,000 



24,729,290 



393,246 



3,000,000 



7,000,000 



1,750,000 



2,000,000 



1,973,312 



