Milk sugar

✍ Scribed by R.L.B.

• Book ID: 103090438
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1887
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 120 KB
• Volume: 123
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(87)90278-x

✦ Synopsis

~'cienti~qc Notes and Comments.

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of permanganate of potash in seven gallons of water (according to Mitscherlich, this product is soluble in fifteen to sixteen parts cold. water ), to this solution-which is of an intense purple color--thirty kilograms of the oil to be clarified is added little by little. The whole is allowed to stand two days, but ~is stirred very frequently. At the end of that time, four and one-half gallons of water is added and five kilograms of the hydrochloric acid of commerce, 20 ° to22 ° B., and the whole stirred again. After a few days, the acidulated water is carefully drawn off, the oil is treated with hot water to cleanse it from traces of acid, and is then passed through a charcoal filter. Linseed, poppy, olive, pahn and fish-oils can be successfully clarified in this manner.

--Chron.