Tanco, a leather manufacturer, uses large quantities of common salt to preserve animal hides.  New environmental regulations have significantly increased the cost of disposing of salt water that results from this use, and, in consequence, Tanco is considering a plan to use potassium chloride in place of common salt.  Research has shown that Tanco could reprocess the by-product of potassium chloride use to yield a crop fertilizer, leaving a relatively small volume of waste for disposal.

In determining the impact on company profits of using potassium chloride in place of common salt, it would be important for Tanco to research all of the following EXCEPT:

1. What difference, if any, is there between the cost of the common salt needed to preserve a given quantity of animal hides and the cost of the potassium chloride needed to preserve the same quantity of hides?
2. To what extent is the equipment involved in preserving animal hides using common salt suitable for preserving animal hides using potassium chloride?
3. What environmental regulations, if any, constrain the disposal of the waste generated in reprocessing the by-product of potassium chloride?
4. How closely does leather that results when common salt is used to preserve hides resemble that which results when potassium chloride is used?
5. Are the chemical properties that make potassium chloride an effective means for preserving animal hides the same as those that make common salt an effective means for doing so?

   Answer: e

我觉得d更好吧~~

由试剂的化学成分不能直接架桥说明试剂所保护的产品（皮革）销量 E wrong

可是我觉得e中也是考虑到了effective的对比呀，和d的思路是差不多的吧？

再请教~~~

D: the chemical properties (that make potassium chloride an effective means for preserving animal hides   )Are the same as those (that make common salt an effective means for doing so) ,改成肯定句在感觉一下，D主要是在考察成分是不是一样，而是不是一样并不重要，结果才重要，也许成分不同但效果相同，馒头，米饭，成分不同，只要吃了不饿就行，管他是哪个？