Abstract
SIGNOR PARODI has addressed a report to the Italian Government, in which he gives his estimates that the sulphur of Sicily will be exhausted in fifty or sixty years. At present it is on Sicily we depend almost entirely for the supply of our sulphur—that “mainstay of present industrial chemistry”—which is so largely used in our arts and manufactures. Our demand, too, has been a steadily increasing one. In 1842 we imported 16,686 tons, and in 1862 the demand had risen to 75,000 tons In the production of nearly every textile fabric sulphuric acid is used; it is more or less directly employed m soap and glass-making, metal refining, and the preparation of artificial manures requires large quantities. Our consumption seems to be limited only by the supply.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Our Sulphur Supplies . Nature 10, 271 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010271a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/010271a0