|
|
Article: CE Centenary: the flow of history. (100 A Century of Service to the CPI).
- Article from:
- Chemical Engineering
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Access Intelligence, LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
In many cases, these excerpts from our magazine signal innovative engineering milestones. And occasionally, they imply that nothing is new under the sun.
September 1902, p. 23: Electrolytic decomposition of sodium chloride in aqueous solution presents chemical problems of no small degree of complexity. For the production of caustic and chlorine, the essential point is to keep those products apart. This article outlines several lines of attack toward a solution of that problem.
December 1902, p. 116: The theory of electrolytic dissociation assumes a "dissociation" into ions, not atoms. Some difficulties in the conception of ions will disappear when the ...