Show GASES ONCE WASTED I 1 TR TURNED ED INTO INTO MONEY I 1 industry and public benefited 1 by y C ch erni demitry em itry stry 41 east pittsburgh pa modern chemist imar y Is dim demonstrating 0 nitrating that even odors cal cs I 1 bo bi turned into dollars and cents that have polluted the atmosphere are now being captured and converted into the liquids from which they originated to the profit of both industry and the public expert of 0 the materials and process engineering department of 0 tho the westinghouse In electric and manufacturing company decided that too many smells were going up the chimney in the process ot of treating insulation with resinous materials so they trapped the gases as fast as they wore were generated mixed them with water and then distilled this liquid recovering from 80 to 00 per cent of the solvents used in the formula I 1 how far chemical engineers can go in eliminating and using fumes b by Y them before they are dis charged into the air has not yet been determined but experiments now under way suggest that far reaching results are possible the saying saving already effected by the capture of 0 used solvents Is said to be considerable chemists point out how however ever that recovery methods might amigh t be too well perfected tor for it Is possible that some ot of tile the agents recovered from gases would themselves be difficult to destroy |