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Show Chemical Lahore vy Iron Factor The chemistry department of a steel plant is a highly important part of the plant. Figuratively speaking it is the eyes, ears and nose of the plant. Indeed, as one iron manufacturer indicated, "it's the taster." The chemistry laboratory of an iron or steel plant "tastes" the products, raw and manufactured, of the plant. It tests the iron ore, the coal, the lime, and all the other raw materials used in the production produc-tion of iron nnd steel. It tests the by-products, the gases that come off the by-products coke ovens. It tests the coke itself to guarantee that it will be the right sort of coke for the melting nnd fluxing of the iron ore into pigiron. It tests the flow of iron to definitely fix the standard of the iron as to possession pos-session of carbon and other factors. Without n chemistry department a manufacturer of iron or steel would be at sea. He wouldn't know what sort of iron or steel he was producing. But with a chemistry department at his elbow the manufacturer manu-facturer knows exactly what grade of iron or steel he turns out. Hence the need for the immediate rebuilding of the chemistry laboratory labora-tory nt the Columbia Steel corporation corpora-tion plant. |