OXIDATION OF ARSENIC IN DIPPING BATHS. 5 
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use, the first tendency to become oxidized may become diminished or 
overbalanced by a tendency in the opposite direction, so that the lines 
thereafter remain parallel or even converge. In a general way the 
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Fig. 2.— Diagram (vats G to K) showing changes in oxidation of arsenic in dipping baths. 
size of the figure of use (the diagrams for 1913 are purposely arranged 
in the descending order of the average figures of use of the vats) evi- 
dently measures the rapidity with which the first stage, that of 
oxidation, progresses, and also the rapidity with which the second 
stage, that of reduction, first appears and the extent to which it 
thereafter inhibits or overcomes the original tendency to oxidation. 
Unfortunately, through failure of the field agents of the bureau to 
