Generation of inflammable gases in the diffusion of beets

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1883
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 61 KB
• Volume: 116
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(83)90118-7

✦ Synopsis

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Generation of Inflammable Gases in the Diffusion of

Beets.--in extracting sugar from beet roots by diffusion, gases are liberated which sometimes take fire and burn with a bluish flmne. L. Chevron has analyzed |he es(.aping gases trod finds that they consist at first ()nly m e earlLonie acid and nitrogen. After awhile hydrogen begins to appem', which seems to 1)e due to an acid reaction of t]m beet juice upon the iron with which it is in contact. He thinks it would be iml)ossible tbr the hydrogen to accumulate in suffieient quantities to t)roduee an exl)h>slon , but the inevital)le corrosion of the diffusives by the acid juice is an inconvenience which should be guarded against.--BM. de/'Acad, de ]~e/g., ] 883.

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