SOME ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF CUTTING FLUIDS

THE METAL‐WORKING industry is firmly established as one of the foundations of a modern industrial society. In Britain, which may be taken as fairly representative of such a society, it constitutes the country's largest manufacturing industry employing nearly 3¾ million workers in over 16 theusand plants. Furthermore, apart from the steel industry, which supplies its basic raw material, its anticipated rate of growth is larger than any other industry.