Chemical Specialities:
Domestic and Industrial, 2nd Edition
By Louis Chambers and Peter Bathe
Vol. 1: 1978
Hardback, 219 pages
240 x 160 mm, 9" x 6"
ISBN 978-1870228-00-8
£10.00
Vol. 2: 1979
Hardback, 382 pages
240 x 160 mm, 9" x 6"
ISBN 978-18700228-10-5
£10.00
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This book, which is a classic in its field, discusses, the chemistry, manufacture and application of a range of household specialties and thus brings together, from a variety of sources, data on widely differing products that have as a common ground their type of market and their dependence upon quite specific, though varying, user requirements and expectations. The rate of expansion in this field in recent years, both in the development of existing products and in the emergence of quite new ones, has meant that this revised edition has had to be substantially rewritten and expanded and now appears in two volumes. Although some years have elapsed since this edition was revised, it contains much that is still relevant today.
The chapters of Vol. 1 are titled: Soap; Synthetic detergents; Laundry syndets; Enzymes in the laundry process; Fabric conditioners; Laundry bleaches; Optical brightening agents; Household pests and their control; Moths, wool-digesting insects and mothproofing.
Vol. 2 contains: Polishes; Disinfectants; Adhesives; Abrasives; Paints; Aerosols; Household toiletries.