Silicate analysis: A review

JSGT 1959 V43 T005-T029

Ideally we should be trying to achieve the situation obtaining on some chemical plants where an instrument on the plant monitors some component or mixture and when, for example, a departure from composition or the like takes place, the instrument takes the appropriate action and makes the correction in time for it to be of value. When electric lamp bulbs are tumbling off the machine at the rate of 1000 per minute, and bottles, for all I know, at higher speeds, the results of analysis received two days later showing that the alkali content was wrong or out of adjustment are of little value. My thesis, for what it is worth, is that we should employ better analysts and that they should aim to carry out fewer but more useful analyses with the maximum speed. This, I feel sure, is as true for the glass industry as for some others.

R. C. Chirnside