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then salt, published in Bulletin 83, p. 82 "Salt" for 1905; and 

 then nitrate of soda published in the Journal of Industrial and 

 Engineering Chemistry, Vol. I, May, 1909. An application of the 

 results is shown in "The nitrogen question from the military- 

 standpoint" published on pages 225-236 of the Smithsonian 

 Report for 1909. 



I have been now engaged for several years in collecting the infor- 

 mation for chlorhydric, nitric and acetic acids. The methods of 

 procedure followed were those described in the nitrate of soda 

 paper mentioned above. The results obtained are given in the 

 accompanying tables. They cannot be as precise as those for 

 sulphuric acid since the statistics of manufacture embrace all 

 grades, while those for sulphuric acid were so returned that 

 they could be reduced to a common standard. They are 

 believed to represent the best obtainable results and have been 

 so accepted by the several manufacturers to whom they have 

 been submitted. 



TABLE II 

 Consumption of Nitric Acid 



PRODUCTION 



Consumption 



Dyestuffs 



Explosives 



Fine chemicals 



General chemicals 



Refining metals 



Parting metals 



Plastics 



All other uses 



