Castner
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
Hamilton Castner, American industrial chemist
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An excerpt from "All the Ways We Kill and Die," the forthcoming book by bestselling author Brian Castner.
Castner discusses his journey through traditional indigenous villages, and how oil pipelines, drilling, melting snow roads, and climate change are affecting their way of life, as the Arctic warms twice as fast as the rest of the globe.
This method was used until Hamilton Castner in 1894 developed a synthesis starting from coal, ammonia, and sodium yielding sodium cyanide, which reacts with acid to form gaseous HCN.
This method is less expensive than the previous Castner process (electrolysis sodium hydroxide ).