Copper Compounds

In addition to their many uses in agriculture and biology, copper salts have an astonishing variety of industrial uses, chiefly of a specialised nature, and there is hardly an industry which does not have some small use for them.

Tin Compounds

The most notable tin compound is the tin dioxide (SnO2), used in electric resistors and dielectrics, and the tin monoxide that it is used in the production of tin salts for electroplating and as chemical reagents.

Lead Compounds

Lead compounds are used in the manufacturing process of plastics, rubbers, and metals, pigments, dyes, paints and coatings, matches, ammunition, fireworks, and explosives, rodenticides and insecticides, brake shoes, flame retardants.........

Arsenic Compounds

Formerly the most important use of arsenic compounds, was as an insecticide sprayed in fields and orchards - this has largely ceased. However it is still used in the treatment of wood against rot (fencing etc).

Silver Compounds

Silver compounds are being developed for treating battlefield wounds on the spot and in hospital casualty areas, other silver compounds and silver surgical accessories are in constant use in medicine world wide.

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