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ON the occasion of the annual general meeting of the British Dyestuffs Corporation held on May 21 Sir Henry Birchenough, who has succeeded Lord Moulton as chairman of the company, emphasised the importance of a great dye-making industry as an instrument of national defence, pointing out that practically the whole of the poison gases used by the German Army in the war were made in the establishments of the German dye manufacturers, as well as large quantities of high explosives and synthetic nitric acid. Chemical warfare, in any future conflict, will no doubt be greatly extended, and its successful prosecution will depend on the equipment, skill, and experience of the dyestuff industry.
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Present State of the Dye Industry. Nature 105, 413–414 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105413a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105413a0