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c. fertilizers
d. plastics manufacture
4. A plant that consumes 585 tons of salt produces how many tons of caustic
(sodium hydroxide)?
a. 298
b. 400
c. 585
d. 710
5. What are the two gases that are coproduced in a caustic plant?
6. Why were there so many chloralkali plants built in Niagara Falls, NY?

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