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BiRON
BiRON A biological process for removing iron from public water supplies. Developed in the United Kingdom
by Biwater Europe Ltd. and piloted in 1994 at a water treatment plant in Ipswich.
Alani, S., Water Waste Treat., 1994, 37(6), 50.
Bischof An obsolete process for making white lead (basic lead carbonate), invented by G. Bischof around
1900. Lead monoxide was reduced by the carbon monoxide in water gas to form black lead suboxide, oxidized
in damp air to lead hydroxide, slurried in dilute acetic acid, and carbonated with carbon dioxide. Piloted in
Willesden, London, and commercialized by L. Mond in the Brimsdown White Lead Company ...