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:
A. 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?
B. To what extent is the equipment involved in preserving animal hides using common salt suitable for preserving animal hides using potassium chloride?
C. What environmental regulations, if any, constrain the disposal of the waste generated in reprocessing the by-product of potassium chloride?
D. How closely does leather that results when common salt is used to preserve hides resemble that which results when potassium chloride is used?
E. 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?
u r right, the subject is chemical properties, and i thought it was the 'effective means' ( i need to pay more attention while reading)
thx for pointing that out for me作者: xiaoaojiang 时间: 2010-9-26 20:36
我开始选的c,原文不是说Tanco could reprocess the by-product of potassium chloride use to yield a crop fertilizer吗?那么就不需要考虑c中的问题了吧,虽然有少量waste,但不是直接的by-product啊?作者: MarilynR 时间: 2010-9-27 06:45
我开始选的c,原文不是说Tanco could reprocess the by-product of potassium chloride use to yield a crop ...
xiaoaojiang 发表于 2010-9-26 20:36