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The historical, social, and intellectual elements of disciplinary identity for physical chemistry were well laid out in Europe, Great Britain, and the United States by the 1920s, and a new hybrid discipline of physical organic chemistry emerged in turn. However, more so than in some other scientific fields at this time, physical chemists often were to experience varieties of identity crisis. Were they physicists, or were they chemists What was the difference between physics and chemistry This is a question to which we return in the concluding chapters of this book. 

Becker and Franz Knipping (eds.). Power in Europe Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany in a Postwar World (Berlin Walter de Gruyter, 1986), pp. 237-61. 

Zeolites, particularly zeolite A, can be manufactured from kaolinitic clays, which as particularly found in Central Europe, Great Britain, Japan, China and USA. To transform kaolin into zeolite, it has to be thermally converted, e.g. by shock heating to > 550°C, to metakaolin. The metakaolin is then su.spended in sodium hydroxide solution and converted at 70 to 100°C into zeolite A. Some of the impurities contained in the natural raw material are retained in the final product. If amorphous silica is added, Si02-rich zeolites are produced. This process enables the transformation of preformed bodies into zeolite materials. 

In a relatively small continental area such as Europe, there is not much difference between what would be considered the regional scale and the continental scale. However, on most other continents there would be a difference between what is considered regional and what continental. Perhaps of greatest concern on the continental scale is that the air pollution policies of a nation are likely to create impacts on neighboring nations. Acid rain in Scandanavia has been considered to have had impacts from Great Britain and Western Europe. Japan has considered that part of their air pollution problem, especially in the western part of the country, has origins in China and Korea. Cooperation in the examination of the North American acid rain problem has existed for a long time between Canada and the United States. 

Figures for the numbers of organic dairy cows in Europe (Foster Lampkin, 1999) indicated that in 1996 Great Britain still had only 3436 organic dairy cows, compared to Austria (87 068), Switzerland (32 504) and Denmark (21417). By 1999 Padel, et al. (2000) calculated that there were 45 million litres of organic milk produced in the UK. From 2000 to 2003 organic milk production in the UK increased by approximately 600%, and the total organic milk collected in 2003 was 293.4 million litres, of which 62% was sold as organic (Soil Association, 2003).

In Europe in 1996, the largest area devoted to organic arable crops was in Denmark (91000 ha), with Italy next (62000 ha) and then France (34000 ha). This compares with 4800 ha devoted to organic arable crops in Great Britain (Foster Lampkin, 1999). However, by 2003 this had increased dramatically to 44413 ha (Soil Association, 2003). Changes in crop areas are shown in Table 5.1. Of the total crop area of 4 515 000 ha in 1996, wheat occupied 44% of the area. The area of spring barley had decreased by nearly 50% from the 1988 figure. 

Great Britain imports more tea than any other nation. In 1993, imports of tea to the U.K. were 193,837 metric tons (the equivalent of over 340,000), which represents 56% of all imports to Europe.22 Most imports of tea to the U.K. come from Malawi and India.27 Pakistan is the second largest importer of tea, followed by the U.S. 

Only after Pearl Harbor did the United States government discover how Farben had also stopped the flow of crucial war materials from America to its lend-lease allies. Magnesium was the best example. The arrangement between Farben, the Aluminum Company of America, and the Dow Chemical Company not only had limited production within the United States but had fixed it so that all quantity exports from the United States went only to Germany. Thus Great Britain and the rest of Europe became completely dependent on Farben for magnesium. 

Western civilisation is based on the cultivation of wheat, a practice that seems to have started in Mesopotamia, the area that is currently Iraq. Wheat is a member of the Grammacidae, i.e. it is a member of the grass family. The cultivation of wheat spread from the Middle East across Europe. Settlers took wheat seeds with them to the Americas and started to cultivate wheat there. Those settlers from Great Britain took wheat that had evolved to grow in British conditions. These wheat varieties would grow on the eastern seaboard but were not successful in the American Midwest. Subsequently, however, wheat from Eastern and Central Europe was found to thrive in the Midwest. The cultivation of wheat also spread to Canada and Australia. 

Aromatic aminosulfonic acids, are limited with 500 ppm according to the Council of Europe and in Great Britain and Switzerland, a threshold limit value for PCB (25 ppm) exists as well for Great Britain and Switzerland and is recommended by the Council of Europe. 

A well-assorted, international representation of authorship is evident in recent volumes of Advances the original British-American liaison on which the publication was founded has been substantially expanded to the international level. The present volume includes, in addition to contributions from North America and Great Britain, articles from continental Europe and, coincidentally, three separate chapters by authors based at different points on the African continent. 

Statistics.—The following1 table from a paper by Mr. Kenyok Blackwell, on the Iron Industry of Great Britain, which was read before the Society of Arts a few years ago,-gives the estimated production of crude-Iron in the. principal countries of Europe at that period i—... 

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