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Show WAR DEMANDS BROADER WORK IN CHEMISTRY From the. annual report of the Secretary of the Interior: "In this department during the past year we had a glimpse of the expanding romance of chemistry study and found adventure in the search for the hidden secrets of petroleum, pe-troleum, natural gas, and coal tar, of coal smoke, and the refuse from a hundred furnaces and smokestacks. smoke-stacks. We appear to have suddenly sudden-ly driven into a chemical age, or perhaps per-haps it would be more accurate to say that we have suddenly realized that we are in such an age. New explosives, new fertilizers new sources of powder, of food, new materials for construction and destruction, de-struction, new preservatives of life, and new agencies for the sweetening sweeten-ing and wholesoming of life these are to the credit of the modern chemist, and as a by-product of this war we are to have a higher appreciation ap-preciation of this branch of science, and our genhn !oi discovery which has so greatly been applied to problems prob-lems of mechanics will l.nd in analytic anal-ytic and synthetic ..hem.etry a field of opportunity subject to almost infinite in-finite expanbion. . |