December 1, 1915] THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Effect of the War on Chemicals and Compounding Ingredients. 



To those interested, it might seem that tlie war had made gredients that have peculiar properties and rank way ahead of 

 a special target of the rubber industries. In many direc- any second best. The research chemist will have his hands 

 tions prices have mounted, some of them pretty well sky- full, but perhaps the spur of necessity may bring abundant 

 ward, and there are those in the chemical market that freely reward in the end. This is one of the phases of the situation, 

 predict .still higher prices. This is certainly not reassuring. and is mainly, though not entirely, the consequence of a stop- 

 Happily, there are sources of information that promise better- page of foreign supplies. 



ment in some important departments, but for the present the Unquestionably the biggest factor in raising prices and re- 

 producer should be wary of chasing rainbows. On the whole, ducing or cutting off needful materials is the military demand 

 rubber manufacturers should not be optimistic as to quantities from abroad. Munitions and fighting tools generally make the 

 and prices. heaviest drain, but there are allied phases of warfare that call 

 .•\ casual review of the situation today indicates that there for their portion, and one of these is in the medical require- 

 are special ingredients that the compounder may have to aban- ments of this awful struggle. The rise in the cost of zinc 

 don, and no time should be lost in seeking for reasonably satis- oxides was immediately the outcome of the greatly increased 

 factory substitutes. In some cases this prospect is discouraging, use of brass. Millions upon millions of cartridges have been 

 particularly where the trade is using for certain goods in- turned out for small arms and machine guns, and still larger 



NORMAL PRICES VS. WAR PRICES. 

 NOVEMBER, 1915. 



Chemicals and Compounding Ingredients. I.iL:lit I-ine Stiows Incre.i.se in Price. Prices. 

 ^^^^»- 50.12 !b. 



Acetic acid, 28 pe 



Antimony, crimson 



golden 



Barium sulphate 



Barytes, white 



Basofor 



Benzol 



Carbon bisulphide 



tetrachloride 



Caustic soda 76 per cent 



Chrome, green 



yellow 



Graphite, flake 



Lead, red oxide 



white basic carbonate 



sulphate 



Lithopone 



Magnesia carbonate 



Naphtha 



Oil, pine 



Orange mineral 



Pitch burgundy 



Prussian blue 



Rubber substitute, black 



white 



Shellac 



Toluol 



Ultramarine blue 



Waxes — yellow beeswax 



white beeswax 



Ozokerite, black 



Montan 



Ceresin, white 



Parafiin, 128" 



Yellow ochre 



Zinc oxide, American 



French process, green seal. 

 red seal . . 

 white seal 



