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A WELL-KNOWN firm of dealers in chemicals and laboratory apparatus gave a quotation some days ago for the supply of an ounce each of dulcite and adonite. They proposed to charge 9l. 10s. for the former and 6l. for the latter. In the price list of chemicals issued by the same firm some months before the war the prices were respectively 45s. and 18s. Is there any good reason (except greed) for this increase of price? Presumably this firm, or some other English firm with which they deal have held a stock of these sugars since before the war. The substances are indispensable in public health bacteriological work, and is it not possible that some university laboratory can undertake their preparation and distribution at cost price?
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J., J. The Prices of Chemicals. Nature 94, 670 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/094670c0
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