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Prof. Akihiro Abe, Department of Industrial Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, 1583 Iiyama, Atsugi-shi 243-02, Japan Prof. Henri Benoit, CNRS, Centre de Recherches sur Ies Macromolecules, 6, rue Boussingault, 67083 Strasbourg Cedex, France Prof. Hans- Joachim Cantow, FreiburgerMaterialforschungszentrum,... 

Besides the valuable information obtained from the companies cited in Refs. 2 and 3, cooperation with Atochem Elf-Aquitaine (Paris and Pierre-Benite, France), E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company (Wilmington, Delaware, USA) and Ems-Dottikon AG (Dottikon, Switzerland) in the domain of industrial photochemistry, as well as with Asea Brown Boveri AG (Baden, Switzerland) for the technical application of excimer light sources in photochemistry, provided many interesting discussions, new insights in problems of industrial chemistry, and valuable new tools for their solution. 

The 17 papers in this volume provide authoritative, in-depth coverage of an important area of nuclear and industrial chemistry. In addition to 12 U.S. authored papers, there are papers from authors in France, Japan, Peoples Republic of China, Sweden, and West Germany. This volume thus includes contributions from most countries in the world that have significant transplutonium element production and recovery programs and facilities. 

For cases with more direct relevance, see Charles C. Gillispie, The Discovery of the Leblanc Process, Isis 48, 1957, 152-170 Holmes, Eighteenth Century Chemistry, 85-102 John Graham Smith, The Origins and Early Development of the Heavy Chemical Industry in France (Oxford University Press, 1979). 

By H. CoPAUX, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the School of Industrial Chemistry and Physics of Paris, France. Translated by Henry Leffmann, m.d. 30 Illustrations. Cloth, 2.00. 

The Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry, University of Metz, Saint-Avold, FRANCE... 

Dipartimento di Chimica and Centro CNR-MISO, University di Bari, Bari, Italy, h Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Mol culaire et Cristalline, Talence, France Industrial Chemistry Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland. 

SINTEF Applied Chemistry, N-7034 Trondheim, Norway. Department of Industrial Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7034 Trondheim, Norway. On leave from University of Poitiers, URA CNRS 350 40, Avenue du Recteur Pineau, 86022 Poitiers Cedex, France... 

Linfield, W.M., Ed. Anionic Surfactants, Part 1 Marcel Dekker New York, 1976 Vol. 7, 258. Keim, W. Roper, M. Ullmann s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, Gerhartz, W., Ed. VCH Verlagsgesellschaft Weinheim, 1985 Vol. Al, 195. Vora, B.V. Pujado, P.R. Allawala, M.A. Fritsch, T.R. Production of biodegradable detergent intermediates. Second World Surfactants Congress, Paris, France, May 24—27, 1988. Thorton, D.P. Corrosion free HF alkylation. Chem. Eng. 1970, 77 (13), 108-112. 

The evolution of industrial chemistry in France is no less interesting than that of Britain. The French did not know any better than the British about how to integrate scientific knowledge into chemical industries and the solution that eventually would prevail in this country would result also from the complex interplay of local factors. Once again the nature of French chemical industries and that of the educational cilities were to play a large role in the shaping of industrial engineers in that country (50). 

For the background to the adoption of the Haber-Bosch process at the French state factory see Maurice Deschiens, The position of the nitrogen industry in France, Chemistry and Industry, 43 (1924), 507-508. 

These words recall how essential may be the chemistry for the whole industry, and explain how important may have been the creation of the office des produits chimiques et pharmaceutiques during the war. This speech, delivered by Paul Kestner to the first session of the Society of Industrial Chemistry (Soci6t6 de Chimie Industrielle) in March 1918, describes chemistry and its main uses. It also shows how industrial chemistry had become so important. In wartime, the organization of the chemical industry had many strategic consequences. The experience of chemical organization during the First World War proved useful to France. 

Societe de Chimie industrielle (Society for industrial Chemistry), 107 Societe de Chimie Physique de Paris (Society of Chemical Physics of Paris), 268 Societe de Pharmacie de Paris (Pharmaceutical Society of Paris), 97 Societe Frangaise de Chimie, see Societe Chimique de Paris (de France)... 

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