_See_ Silk, artificial

Malt, pentosanes of, 122

Mather system of boiling textiles, 167

Mercerization, 22; shrinkage during, 24

Mercerised yarn, strength and elasticity of, 25, 26

Methylhydroxyfurfural, 84

Mould fungi, nitrated carbohydrates as food for, 43

Mycosin, 113

Nitrated carbohydrates, lead compounds of, 49

Nitrates of carbohydrates, 41

Nitrocellulose (_see_ Cellulose nitrates);
silk, 55

'Normal' cellulose, definition of, 27

Normal paper, 160

Oxycellulose esters, 72;
nitration of, 43;
researches on, 71, 72, 74;
_resume_ of properties, 94

Oxygluconic acid, 117

Paper, deterioration of, 155;
normal standard, 160;
pulp, spinning of, 169

Peat, constituents of, 154

Pectins, 151, 152

Pentosanes, 100, 109, 144;
constituents of cotton, 124;
constituents of fodder, 122;
estimation of, 121;
of seeds during germination, 124

'Permanent tissue,' 103

Phloroglucinol, 119, 121

Plant tissues, carbohydrates of, 96, 97, 99

Plants, source of unsaturated compounds in, 145

Powders, manufacture of sporting, 52

Saccharification of cellulose and derivatives, 73

Schulze method of cellulose estimation, 18, 98

Schweizer solution, 101

Seeds, pentosanes in germinating, 124

Silica in plant tissues, 13

Silk, artificial, 54, 62, 63, 172;
bibliography of, 60;
from cuprammonium, 58, 64, 173;
from nitrocellulose (collodion), 55, 63, 172;
from viscose, 59;
from zinc chloride, 59;
reactions of, 64

---- natural, reactions of, 64

Straws, 101, 105

Succinic acid from furfural, 118

Sulphite waste liquors, 149, 164

'Swedish' filter paper, 14

Tissue constituents, 99, 109

Trees, composition of trunk woods, 142

Viscose and viscoid, 157, 158, 159

---- silk, 59, 175

---- ---- specific gravity of, 34 (_refer also_ Cellulose
sulphocarbonate)

'Vulcanised fibre,' 20

Weende, method of cellulose estimation (crude fibre), 17, 98

Welsbach mantles, 14;
Clamond type, 15

Wheat grain, insoluble carbohydrates of, 137

Wood, alcohol from, 146, 148

Wood-cellulose, waste liquors, 149

Wood-gum, 144

Wood-pulp, processes, 162

Wood, trunks of trees, 142

Yeast, carbohydrates of, 113

Zinc chloride, artificial silk, 59;
solvent action of, 20

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