1 chemicals for industrial purposes, namely for the surface treatment of metals and plastics, especially salts and mixtures of salts for treating melts and metal alloys and phosphates or mixture thereof with other salts or acids for producing effects on and especially for chemically altering the surfaces of articles of metal to protect them from corrosion and for priming metals and/or their alloys, for electrical insulation, for cold forming with or without the removal of material and to improve slipperiness or other properties of metallic materials that can be affected by surface treatment, specifically cleaning and improving the adhesion of coatings, lacquers, and paints of protective coats and rust preventatives; chemicals for industrial purposes, namely for the alkaline etching and degreasing of metal work, for cleaning and deactivating; chemicals, namely binders for the inorganic chemical bonding of refractory products; chemical auxiliaries and additives in the form of chemicals for industrial products, namely for the treatment and processing of plastics, especially stabilizers, lubricants, softeners, complexers, processing facilitators, fillers, and pigments; chemicals for industrial purposes as well as animal and vegetable products, namely fatty acids for the manufacture and processing of natural and synthetic rubbers and latexes thereof; chemicals for bonding rubbers to metals and other rigid materials; aqueous ammonium-acetate solutions and sodium silicofluoride dispersions for gelling latex foam; chemical solutions of lampblack for the antistatic treatment of carpeting; liquid and soft plastics, in raw form, namely castable and brushable mold materials; synthetic casting resins for use in the manufacture of special-purpose glasses; chemicals for the nongalvanic copper plating of steel wire and stainless and acid resistant steels to facilitate drawing wire and tubing and cold extruding; chemical industrial lubricant additives for lubricants; chemicals for debarring and surface-treating metals and plastics; lithium, lithium salts, organolithium compounds, hydrides, cesium and cesium salts as chemicals for industrial purposes, especially for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, aluminum manufacture, lubricating-grease production, air conditioning, enamel glass, and ceramics industries, optics, electronics, catalyst production, analysis, and anticorrosion; none of the above being manganese, a manganese compound, or aluminum dioxide; chemical etch inhibitors for neutralizing hydrochloric, sulfuric and phosphoric acid used in the metal treatment field