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... fibres , and other products of commerce , we should consider the position in which our manufac- turers might possibly be placed were a war to arise with the United States , from a stoppage of our sup- plies of that grand staple of our ...
... fibres , and other products of commerce , we should consider the position in which our manufac- turers might possibly be placed were a war to arise with the United States , from a stoppage of our sup- plies of that grand staple of our ...
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... fibre in India , are largely imported . These gunny bags , and old rope or junk , are , after use , ultimately worked up into brown paper . The twitch or couch grass , the long underground shoots of Triticum repens , which is ...
... fibre in India , are largely imported . These gunny bags , and old rope or junk , are , after use , ultimately worked up into brown paper . The twitch or couch grass , the long underground shoots of Triticum repens , which is ...
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... fibre by boiling pine - leaves in a solution of caustic alkali for a few hours ; and after rinsing and boiling them again in alkaline liquor , and saturating them in a solution of chloride of lime , a whiter and finer sub- stance , much ...
... fibre by boiling pine - leaves in a solution of caustic alkali for a few hours ; and after rinsing and boiling them again in alkaline liquor , and saturating them in a solution of chloride of lime , a whiter and finer sub- stance , much ...
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... fibre , was found generally unfit for the manufacture of any durable material . At a recent fair held in Liberia , on the West Coast of Africa , a pair of stockings was exhibited , manu- factured from the silky floss of the Bombax ...
... fibre , was found generally unfit for the manufacture of any durable material . At a recent fair held in Liberia , on the West Coast of Africa , a pair of stockings was exhibited , manu- factured from the silky floss of the Bombax ...
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... fibre , and forms a soft , warm , and very light fabric . The silk cotton being a very tender fibre , cannot be used with advantage as a stuffing material alone ; but it is highly probable that it might be very advantageously used in ...
... fibre , and forms a soft , warm , and very light fabric . The silk cotton being a very tender fibre , cannot be used with advantage as a stuffing material alone ; but it is highly probable that it might be very advantageously used in ...
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Page 157 - Weissenfeld, who has bought it from the originator, and from several experiments deduced the following results : — 1. It is not only possible to produce every variety of paper from the blades of Indian corn, but the product is equal, and in some cases even superior, to the article manufactured from rags. 2. The paper requires but very little size to render it fit for writing purposes, as the pulp naturally contains a large proportion of that necessary ingredient, which can at the same time be easily...
Page 158 - Indian corn paper, (maishalm papier, as the inventor calls it,) is now in course of construction at Pesth, the capital of the greatest Indian corn growing country in Europe. Another manufactory is already in full operation in Switzerland, and preparations are being made on the coast of the Mediterranean for the production and exportation on a large scale of the pulp of this new material.
Page 163 - ... and of which an unlimited supply may be obtained. I will now enumerate a few of the different substances which I have examined for the purpose of discovering a proper substitute for rags. Rags containing about 50 per cent. of vegetable fibre, mixed with wool or silk, are regarded by the paper-makers as useless to them, and several thousand tons are yearly burned in the manufacture of prussiate of potash. By a simple process, which consists in boiling these rags in caustic alkali, the animal fibre...
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