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IT is surely high time that we, as a nation, were more fully alive to the necessity of a complete investigation of the recovery of by products, and that not merely in connection with nitrogen products. There is still too much of the feeling—one comes across it quite frequently —that so-called waste products form a recognised loss in any process. The investigation of the treatment of any waste product is not looked upon as the work of the person engaged in the specific manufacture from which that waste product is obtained. Competition becomes keener as the years pass, and if our position is to be retained by-products must be recovered in all cases where such recovery can be economically effected. A waste product may even become the starting point of a new industry. The detailed investigation of the position as regards nitrogen by-products manufacture comes as a very welcome record and as a much-needed indicator of the forward path.
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The Nitrogen Problem: By-products1. Nature 105, 201–202 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105201a0
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