Abstract
SUPERPHOSPHATE is one of those chemicals that are almost indispensable to civilized man and never put by him to base uses. It commands our interest for several reasons. Its value for increasing world supplies of food and fibres has been proved on all five continents, and the annual consumption of it now exceeds sixteen million tons. It was the first so-called ‘artificial’ fertilizer to be manufactured on a large scale, by J. B. Lawes in Great Britain, where also its use as a simple fertilizer and as a base for ‘compound’ manures was first developed.
Calcium Superphosphate and Compound Fertilisers
Their Chemistry and Manufacture. By P. Parrish and A. Ogilvie. Pp. xiv + 322. (London: Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications, 1939.) 35s. net.
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Calcium Superphosphate and Compound Fertilisers. Nature 144, 848–849 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144848a0
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