✦ LIBER ✦
The climate near the ground: by Rudolf Geiger, translated by Milroy N. Stewart and others. 482 pages, illustrations and diagrams, 14 × 22 cm. Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1950. Price, $5.00
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1951
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 151 KB
- Volume
- 252
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
This is a comprehensive, practical reference book covering the manufacture of beet sugar in the U. S. and foreign countries.
In the attempt to cover the field, brief elementary discussions have been given on all phases of the industry.
The history, culture, insect pests, plant diseases, the tare laboratory, beet storage, diffusion, chemistry of beet sugar including processes of purification, crystallization, saccharate processes, and drying have been given more thorough discussions.
The book is designed to serve as a reference book for both the technical and professional worker in the beet-sugar industry.