Chemical Methods for Utilizing Wood - Including Destructive Distillation, Recovery of Turpentine, Rosin, and Pulp, and the Preparation Ration of Alcohols and Oxalic Acid #247015

Of the various processes employed for manufacturing chemical compounds from wood, that of destructive distillation is probably at present the most important. The industry is an old one, and is quite well developed in Germany, Russia, Norway, and Sweden, and less extensively in France and England.