The absorption of moisture from the atmosphere by Wools

✍ Scribed by Wright, Allister M.

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1909
• Weight: 362 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000281903

✦ Synopsis

Wnter aolublc suint . . . Sand. dirt. lime, etc. . .. I'urc wool hbrc ........ 1)roportions of cotton wool, nnd thcrcforo tlic cotton wool shonld bc climinntcd, ns fnr ns prncticnblc, from nll cnttlc foorls. JIr. H. B. STOCKS nskcd tho nuthors to outline the mcthod nicntioncd, for hydrolysin tlic hiills, In d i n t wny wns tlic nintcrinl trcntccl with~~ydrocl~loric ncid, nnd how wns tlic ncid subsequently ncutrnliecrl or climinntcd ? Mr. J. MORTOX nslicd if nny work hatl IJCCII donc on scpnrnting tlic cotton nnd thc hulls nftcr tlicy hnd bccn nintlc into cnkc. Yr. BEADLE thought Xr. Smctltnin's definition of a rcconstructctl undccorticntctl J U C d n rcry npt one. He uiidcrstood thnt dccorticnting plnnt hntl bccn shippctl to Burmnli nnct Chinn, but \vhcthcr dccorticntion wns r i n g on in thosc countrics hc did not Itnow. Tlic usunl wlicf in this country wns thnt the orclinnry process of docorticntion ns npplicd in tho Stntcs wns not npplicnblc to thc Inclinn seed, but hc wns of, opinion thnt ccrtnin types fJf tho Arncricnn *' hullcry could 110 uscd for