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Abaca, see Manilla hemp

Abies pulp, 60

Acetic acid in bleaching, 114

Acid, action on paper, 163

— in alum, estimating, 207

— — —, evils of, 163

— processes for wood, 69

— radicles and cellulose, 8

Acids added in bleaching pulps, 112

— and cellulose, 12

Adansonia fibre, 53

— —, boiling, 103

— —, cutting, 103

— —, willowing, 103

Adipo-cellulose, 26

Adulterating paper, 130

Agalite loading, 133

Agave americana fibre, 33, 44

Alkali boiled with rags, 82

— process for isolating cellulose, early methods, 65

Alkaline processes for isolating cellulose, 62

Alkalis and cellulose, 14

— and ligno-cellulose, 21

Aloe fibre, 33, 39, 44, 46

— —, dimensions, 39

— perfoliata fibre, 39

Alum, action on cellulose, 163

—,— on gelatine, 163

—, analysing, 206

— cake, analysing, 206

—, estimating acid in, 207

—, freedom from acid, 163

— in sizing, 139

—, proportion required, 141

— solutions, table of strengths, 143

Alumina resinate, 137

Alumina sulphate, analysing, 206

— — in sizing, 140

Aluminous cake, 140

Ammoniacal solution of cupric oxide, 5

Amyloid, 12

Analysis of plant substances, 42

Analysing alum, 206

— — cake, 206

— alumina sulphate, 206

— antichlor, 208

— bleaching powder, 205

— caustic soda, 205

— dyes, 209

— gelatine, 208

— loading material, 203, 209

— paper, 199

— pigments, 209

— recovered soda, 205

— size, 203

— soaps, 208

— soda ash, 205

— sodium sulphite, 208

— — thiosulphate, 208

— starches, 208

— wood pulp, 201

Ananassa sativa fibre, 44

Aniline blues, 141

— colours, solutions, 37

— for diagnosing plant substances, 43

— pinks, 142

— sulphate solution, 37

Animal cellulose, 7

Annandale’s damping method, 159

Antichlor, analysing, 208

—, lime and sulphur, 129

—, proportion required to neutralise bleaching powder, 128

—, removing bleaching liquor by, 127

Antichlor, sodium hyposulphite, 127, 129

—, — sulphite, 125

—, — thiosulphate, 127, 129

—, testing, 130

Apparatus for microscopic examination of fibres, 35

Ash of cotton pulp, 136

— of esparto pulp, 136

— of linen pulp, 136

— of paper, estimating, 134

— of paper, natural, 136

— of straw pulp, 136

— of wood pulp, 136

Aspen for mechanical wood pulp, 108

Available chlorine in bleaching powder, 110

Bachet and Machard’s process forwood, 69

Baobab fibre, 53

— — composition, 54

Barium hydrate and cellulose, 7

Bark fibres, 2

Barley straw, 98

Barre’s acid process for wood, 69

Bast fibres, 34

— —, dimensions, 39

— filaments, 34

—, nature of, 2

— tissues, 53

Beater bed-plate, 120

— knives, 120

— —, cutting in situ, 121

—, lead-lined, 120

Beaters, 117

—, direct-driven, 126

—, engine for driving, 126

—, water for, 125

Beating esparto, 117

—, proportion of water to pulp, 118

— pulp, 117

— —, duration of, 119

— wood pulp, 117

Bed-plate of beater, 120

Beech, composition, 61

Bertram’s beater, 122

— damping cylinder, 159

— direct-driven beaters, 126

Bertram’s rag boiler, 82

— smoothers, 158

— strainers, 148

Bibliography, 229

Birch, composition, 61

—, pulp yield, 77

Bisulphite, action on cellulose compared with soda, 76

—, colour of pulp produced by, 77

— process, advantages, 76

— processes for wood, 71

Bleached pulp, freeing from bleach, 114

— —, improving colour, 114

Bleaching, acetic acid in, 114

— action should be confined to non-cellulose, 113

— by chlorine, 114

—, electrolytic, 115

— pulp in potchers, 111

— pulps, 110

— rags, 115

— refractory pulps, 114

—, time required by, 113

—, with sodium hypochlorite, 113

Bleaching-liquor, clear, 111

—, removing by antichlor, 127

—, removing from half-stuff, 127

—, storing, 111

—, strength, 111

—, washing out from half-stuff, 127

Bleaching-powder, accelerating action of, 112

—, analysing, 205

— and cellulose, 10

—, available chlorine in, 110

—, keeping, 111

—, neutralising by lime and sulphur, 129

—, — by sodium hyposulphite, 127, 129

—, — by sodium sulphate, 128

—, — by sodium thiosulphate, 127, 129

—, preparing, 110

—, proportion of antichlor required to neutralise, 128

—, quantities needed, 112

Blitz’s sulphide process, 67

Blondel’s acid process for wood, 69

Blotting paper, starching, 139

Blue colours, 141

Boehmeria, 50

— nivea fibre, 39

— puya fibre, 44

Boilers for esparto, 90

— for resolving wood, 74

— for straw, 99

—, iron, 76

—, lead-lining, 75

Boiling adansonia fibre, 103

— esparto, 89, 91

— jute, 103

— manilla hemp, 103

— rags, 82

— straw, 100

Boiling-liquors, recovering soda from, 179

Bombax heptaphyllum fibre, 39

Books on paper-making, 229

Bottoms, caustic, 177

Broke paper, grinding mill, 105

— —, using up, 104

Bromine and jute, 18

Broussonetia kÆmpferia fibre, 54

— papyrifera fibre, 39, 54

Burning recovered soda, 186

Calcining recovered soda, 186

Calendering, 167

Calenders, 158

—, deflection, 171

Calcium carbonate mud, 190

— hypochlorite, removing from pulp, 114

— sulphate, estimating, 203

— — loading, 131

Cannabis sativa fibre, 39, 49

Carbonic acid bleaching, 115

Carbonising recovered soda, 186

Caustic soda, analysing, 205

— —, brands, 178

— —, commercial forms, 177

— — drums, emptying, 179

— —, prices, 179

— — solutions, table of strengths, 109

Causticisers, 188, 192

Causticising, 187

— by ferric oxide, 232

—, lime used, 190

—, oxygenating during, 191

Cellular tissue in straw, 103

Cellulose, 4

—, absorption of acids and basic oxides, 7

—, action of alum on, 163

—, — of cu­pram­mon­ium on, 5, 217

—, — of lime on, 84

—, — of soda and bisulphite compared, 76

—, — of sulphur on, 130

—, — on light, 6

— and acids, 12

— and alkalis, 14

— and barium hydrate, 7

— and bleaching powder, 10

— and chlorine, 10

— and humus, 15

— and hydrochloric acid, 13

— and lead solutions, 8

— and metallic salts, 8

— and nitric acid, 13

— and oxygen, 10

— and sulphuric acid, 12

— and water at high temperature, 14

— and zinc chloride, 13

—, animal, 7

—, behaviour under Schweitzer’s reagent, 5

—, bleaching should not affect, 113

—, burning, 23

—, characters, 4

—, combinations, 7

—, — with acid radicles, 8

— compared with jute, 17

—, composition, 4

—, compounds, 7, 16

—, decomposition, 12

—, — by ferments, 15

—, — by heat, 23

—, destructive action of soda on, 64

— di-nitrate, 10

—, early form of alkali process for isolating, 65

— formed by vinegar plant, 16

—, formula, 4

— gelatinised, 5

—, general method of isolation, 4

— hexa-nitrate, 9

—, identification, 6, 18

Cellulose in contact with iron, 13

— in fibre, estimating, 42

— in straw, 99

—, isolating by sulphurous acid, 64

—, — from plant substances, 62

—, — from wood, Schultze’s method, 21

—, lignification, 17

—, mineral constituents, 5

—, modifications of, in the plant, 16

—, nitration of, 8

—, oxidation, 10

—, penta-nitrate, 9

—, percentage yielded by jute, 19

—, proportion in esparto, 96

—, — of, in well-boiled pulp, 113

—, reactions, 6

—, soluble in Schweitzer’s reagent, 5

—, — sulphides for isolating, 67

—, solubility, 5

—, synthesis, 15

—, tetra-nitrate, 10

—, triacetyl, 8

—, tri-nitrate, 10

—, yield from esparto, 95

—, — from straw, 98

Celluloses, compound, hydrolytic resolution, 63

—, —, treating for paper, 63

Cellulosic fermentation, 16

Chapman’s evaporator, 184

Chemical analysis of plant substances, 42

— examination of paper, 201

Chestnut, pulp yield, 77

China clay, estimating, 203

— — loading, 131

— grass, 39, 46, 50

— —, character, 50

— —, composition, 51

— — fibres, dimensions, 39

— —, forms in which employed, 51

— —, general chemical characteristics, 51

— —, micro-chemical reaction, 51

— —, microscopic features, 51

Chlorinating straw pulp, 102

Chlorinating wood tissue, 19

Chlorine and cellulose, 10

— and jute, 18

— as a bleaching agent, 114

—, available, in bleaching powder, 110

— water solution, 37

Clarifying water, 125

Classification of paper as to strength, 197

Cleaning straw, 100

Closing plates of strainers, 150

Cochineal lakes, 142

Collodion pyroxyline, 10

Colophony, 137

Colour, improving, 114

— of pulp produced by bisulphite, 77

Colouring paper, 141

Commercial statistics, 221

Composition of paper, testing, 199

Compound celluloses, hydrolytic resolution, 63

— —, treating for paper, 63

Conifer pulp, 60

Constitution of plant fibres, 1

Cooke and Hibbert’s beater, 123

Corchorus capsularis fibre, 39, 44, 52

— olitorius fibre, 39

Cork, 26

Cotton, 46

—, classification, 46

—, composition of raw fibre, 47

— fibres, dimensions, 39

—, forms in which employed, 48

—, general chemical characteristic, 47

— in paper, detecting, 199, 201

—, micro-chemical reaction, 47

—, microscopic features, 46

—, nature of, 1

— pulp, ash, 136

— —, beaten, 118

— —, dimensions of fibre, 119

— rags, statistics, 221, 222

— —, treatment for paper, 79

— sections, 47

Couch rolls, 156

Cream caustic, 177

Cross’s boiler, 76

Crotalaria juncea fibre, 44, 50

Crystal carbonate, 138

Cuprammonium, 217

Cuprammonium solution, preparing, 217

Cuticular tissue, 26

Cutting, 171

— adansonia fibre, 103

— beater knives, 121

— jute, 103

— manilla hemp, 103

— rags, 81

— straw, 100

Dahl’s sulphide process, 67

Damping-cylinders, 159

Dandy roll, 155

Dark paper from jute, 103

Deckle, 144, 152

Densities, Twaddle, and sp. gr., 109

Detecting adulteration, 203

Diagnosis of plant substances, 42

Di­cot­y­le­don­ous stems, fibres of, 33, 46

Direct-driven beaters, 126

Discoloration of paper from mechanical wood pulp, 108

Doctor, 157

Draining bleached pulp, 114

— boiled rags, 84

— straw pulp, 100

Drum washer for boiled rags, 85

Dry pulp, preparing, 119

Drying cylinders, 157

Dusting rags, 82

Dyes, 141

—, analysing, 209

Economy of sulphide processes, 68

Edgerunner mill, 119

Edgworthia papyrifera fibre, 54

Ekman’s bisulphite process, 72

— process, preparing wood for, 73

Electrolytic bleaching, 115

Emptying soda drums, 179

Engine for driving beaters, 126

— sizing, 137

Esparto, 46, 55

—, amount of bleaching powder needed by, 112

—, beating, 117

—, boiled, washing, 95

— boiler, Roeckner’s, 93

— —, Sinclair’s, 94

—, boiling, 89, 91

—, character, 55

—, cleaning machine, 90

—, composition, 57

— fibres, dimensions, 39

—, general chemical characteristics, 56

— in paper, detecting, 199, 201

— liquor, disposal of, 98

—, micro-chemical reaction, 56

—, microscopic features, 56

— paper mill, arrangement, 210

—, picking, 90

—, presse-pÂte system, 96

—, pressure for boiling, 93

—, proportion of cellulose in, 96

— pulp, ash, 136

— —, dimensions of fibre, 119

—, quantity of soda for, 92

— section, 56

—, soda required by, 89

—, statistics, 221, 222

—, substances removed from, by caustic soda, 97

—, time of boiling, 92

—, treating for paper, 63

—, yield of cellulose, 95

Estimating acid in alum, 207

— added mineral matter in paper, 136

— mineral matter in paper, 134

Evaporating soda liquors, 180, 231

Evaporators, 180, 231

—, Chapman’s, 184

—, Roeckner’s, 181

—, Porion’s, 182

—, smell consumer, 183

—, Yaryan, 231

Felting, 31

— caused in potchers, 113

Fermentation, cellulosic, 16

Ferments decomposing cellulose, 15

Ferric oxide causticising process, 232

Fibre bundles, 34

—, interweaving to form paper, 30

—, theoretical value in paper, 30

Fibres, analysis, complete, 43

— and cells, 1

—, apparatus for microscopic examination, 35

— classified according to iodine reaction, 46

—, dimensions, 38

—,— in pulps, 119

—, estimating cellulose in, 42

—, — purity, 39

—, isolating for examination, 38

—, microscopic features, 32

—, nature of, 1

— of di­cot­y­le­don­ous stems, 33

— of mono­cot­y­le­don­ous stems, 33

—, physical structure, 30

—, raw, analysing, 42

—, reagents for examining, 36

—, sections for examination, 38

—, separation, 34

—, table of characters, 44

—, — of length, 39

—, Webster on analysis of, 42

Fibrous tissue, 34

Fibro-vascular bundles, 2

— — —, dimensions, 39

Filaments, 34

—, dimensions of cells and fibres, 39

—, table of lengths, 39

Filter bags for water, 126

— paper, starching, 139

Filtering lime mud, 190

Finish, 159

Finishing-house, 175

Fir pulp, 61

Flax, 39, 44

—, characters, 48

—, composition of raw fibre, 48

— fibres, dimensions, 39

—, forms in which employed, 49

—, general chemical characteristic, 48

—, micro-chemical reaction, 48

—, microscopic features, 48

— sections, 48

Forbes’ beater, 122

Fourdrinier machine, 145

Francke’s bisulphite process, 72

Friction-glazing, 169

Fry, Ransome, and Wilkie’s wood-splitting machine, 74

Furfural, 21

Gaskell and Deacon’s crystal carbonate, 138

— sodium sulphite, 128

Gelatine, action of alum on, 163

—, analysing, 208

—, estimating amount of, 204

— for sizing, 161, 162

— size, making, 162

— with soap, 163

Glaser’s straw pulp chlorinating process, 102

Glazing, 167

—, influence on strength, 198

Gossypium fibres, 39, 46

Gould’s beater, 122

Greenbank soda, 178

Grinding straw pulp, 101

— wood to pulp, 105

Guillotine cutter, 174

Gun-cotton, 9

Half-stuff defined, 88

—, freeing from bleaching liquor, 127

—, removing bleaching liquor from, by antichlor, 127

—, washing out bleaching liquor from, 127

Hand-made paper, 144

Hartig-Reusch paper-testing machine, 194

Hemp, 39, 46, 49

—, characters, 49

—, composition, 50

— fibres, dimensions, 39

—, forms in which employed, 50

—, general chemical characteristic, 50

—, micro-chemical reaction, 50

—, microscopic features, 49

—, section, 50

Hermite’s electrolytic bleaching, 115

Hibiscus strictus fibre, 44, 46

Humus and cellulose, 15

Hydracellulose, 12

Hydrochloric acid and cellulose, 13

— — — ligno-cellulose, 22

— — in bleaching pulps, 112

Hydrolytic resolution of compound celluloses, 63

Igniting recovered soda, 186

Iodine and jute, 17

— — lignified tissue, 17

— — starch paper, making, 130

— reaction, details of manipulation, 40

— solution, 36

— —, testing, 36

Iron boilers, 76

— oxide causticising process, 232

Jolly’s balance, 135

Jordan beater, 121

Jute, 33, 39, 44, 46, 52

— and bromine, 18

— — chlorine, 18

— — iodine, 17

—, boiling, 103

—, character, 52

— compared with cellulose, 17

—, cutting, 103

—, dark paper from, 103

— fibres, dimensions, 39

—, forms in which employed, 53

—, general chemical characteristic, 53

—, micro-chemical reactions, 52

—, microscopic features, 52

—, objection to acid in bleaching, 112

—, reactions, 17

—, treating for paper, 64

—, willowing, 103

Kaolin, estimating, 203

—, loading, 131

Kingsland beater, 121

Knives for cutters, 171

— of beater, 120

— — —, cutting in situ, 121

Knotter, 151

Laid paper, 156

Lead lining to beater, 120

— solutions and cellulose, 8

Leaden boilers, 75

Leaf fibres, 2

Lignification estimated by aniline, 43

— of cellulose, 17

Lignified tissue and chlorine, 18

— — — iodine, 17

Ligno-cellulose, 20

—, aldehydic character, 25

—, and dilute alkalis, 21

— and dilute mineral acids, 20

— and hot water, 21

— and hydrochloric acid, 22

— and mineral acids, 20

— and nitro-sulphuric acid, 22

— and sulphuric acid, 22

—, animal digestion of, 23

—, decay of, 23

—, decomposition by heat, 23

—, distribution, 23

—, treating for paper, 64

Lime, action on cellulose, 84

— and sulphur for neutralising bleaching powder, 129

— boiled with rags, 83

— for causticising, 190

—, milk of, 177

— mud, 190

— —, composition, 191

— —, filtering, 190

— salts in water, 212

— sulphate loading, 131

— unsuited for esparto, 89

Lime-tree, composition, 61

Linden bast fibres, 39, 54

Linen, 46

— in paper, detecting, 199, 201

— pulp, ash, 136

— —, beaten, 117

— —, dimensions of fibre, 119

— rags, statistics, 221, 222

— —, treatment for paper, 79

Linum usitatissimum fibre, 39, 44, 46

Literature, 229

Loading, estimating, 134

— materials, analysing, 209

— paper, 130

— with agalite, 133

— with china clay, 131

— with lime sulphate, 131

— with magnesium silicate, 134

— with pearl-hardening, 131

Loft-dried paper, 145

Lunge’s bleaching method, 114

Lygeum spartum fibre, 55

Machine, 145

Magnesium silicate loading, 134

Manilla hemp, 44, 46, 59

— —, boiling, 103

— —, composition, 60

— —, cutting, 103

— —, micro-chemical reaction, 60

— —, microscopic features, 59

— —, sections, 60

— —, treating for paper, 64

— —, willowing, 103

Masson, Scott, and Bertram’s beater, 123

— — — esparto-cleaning machine, 90

— — — strainer, 149

Mechanical wood pulp, 105

— — —, quantitative estimation, 202

Menzies and Davis’ smell consumer, 183

Metallic salts and cellulose, 8

Microscope equipment, 35

Microscopic features of fibres, 32

Microscopical examination of paper, 201

Milk of lime, 177

Mill, arrangement, 210

—, site for, 210

Millboard machine, 166

Mineral acids and cellulose, 20

— — and ligno-cellulose, 20

— matter, added, estimating, 136

— — in paper, estimating, 134

Mixing pulps, 119

Mono­cot­y­le­don­ous stems, fibres of, 33, 46, 54

Mounting solution, 36

Musa paradisiaca fibre, 44

— textilis, 59

Names in paper, 145, 156

Nettle, 52

Neutral mounting solution, 36

New Zealand flax, 39, 44, 46, 59

— — —, dimensions, 39

— — — general chemical characteristics, 59

— — — micro-chemical reaction, 59

New Zealand flax, microscopic features, 59

Nilgherry nettle, 44

Nitric acid and cellulose, 8, 13

Nitro-sulphuric acid and ligno-cellulose, 22

Oak, pulp yield, 77

Oat straw, 98

Oxidising sodium sulphide, 191

Oxycellulose, 13

Oxygen and cellulose, 10

Oxygenating liquors while causticising, 191

Paper ash, estimating, 134

—, broke, pulp from, 104

—, colouring, 141

— from mechanical wood pulp, faults of, 108

—, hand-made, 144

—, loading, 130

—, loft-dried, 145

— machine, 145

— makers’ soap, 163

— making and textiles, 3

—, measuring strength, 193

—, natural ash, 136

—, printed, pulp from, 105

—, sources of raw material, 1

—, thickness, 153

—, toned, 142

— trade, statistics, 225

— waste, pulp from, 104

—, width, 152

Paper-mulberry fibres, 39, 46, 54

Partington’s bisulphite process, 72

Patterns on paper, 145, 156

Pearl hardening, 131

— —, estimating, 203

Pectic acid, 28

Pecto-cellulose, 28

— —, treating for paper, 63

Phormium tenax fibre, 39, 44, 59

Physical structure of fibres, 30

Picking esparto, 90

Pictet’s sulphurous acid process, 70

Pigments, 141

—, analysing, 209

Pine, composition, 61

—, pulp yield, 77

Pine, white, for mechanical wood pulp, 108

— wood fibre, 61

Pineapple fibre, 44, 46

Pink colours, 141

Pinus fibre, 60

Plant fibres, constitution, 1

—, structural elements, 1

— tissues mainly cellulose, 4

Pochin’s aluminous cake, 140

Poplar, composition, 61

— fibre, 60

Porion’s evaporator, 182

Porter-Clark process for water, 214

Potchers, felting caused in, 113

— for bleaching pulp in, 111

— for rags, 80

Presse-pÂte system for esparto, 96

— — — for straw, 101

Pressure for boiling straw, 100

— in relation to soda, 64

Prussian blue, 142

Pulp, beating, 117

—, bleaching, 110

—, — refractory, 114

—, colour of, produced by bisulphite, 77

—, dimensions of fibre in, 119

—, dry, preparing, 119

—, duration of beating, 119

—, freeing from bleach, 114

—, improving colour, 114

—, mixing, 119

—, removing calcium hypochlorite from, 114, 127

— saver, 114, 155

— yield from straw, 99

— — — woods, 77

Purification of water, 211

Rags, bleaching, 115

—, boiled, draining, 84

—, —, washing, 85

—, boiling, 82

—, — with lime, 83

—, cutting, 81

—, dusting, 82

—, potchers, 89

—, proportion of alkali, 83

—, quantity of water for boiling, 84

—, sorting, 80

—, statistics, 221, 222

—, time of boiling, 84

—, treatment for paper, 79

—, — in washer, 89

—, willowing, 81

Ramie fibres, dimensions, 39, 50

Raw material for paper, 1

Reagents for examining fibres, 36

Recovered soda, analysing, 205

— —, carbonising, 186

— — causticising, 187

— —, composition, 186

Refractory pulps, bleaching, 114

Repped paper, 171

Resinate of alumina, 137

Retree, 175

Rhea fibre, 50

Roeckner’s esparto boiler, 93

— evaporator, 181

— strainer, 150

— water clarifier, 211

Rosin, 137

— soap, 137

Rotary boilers unsuited to esparto, 90

Rubbing test for paper, 197

Rye straw, 98

Salle, 175

Salmon’s guillotine, 174

Save-all, 154

Schultze’s method of isolating cellulose from wood, 21

Schurmann’s calender rolls, 171

Schweizer’s reagent, 5

Sections of fibres for examination, 38

Seed hairs, 46

— —, dimensions, 39

Self-cleaning strainer, 149

Settling ponds, 125

Seventy per cent. white caustic, 178

Sheave, causes of, 90

Silk fibre, 31

Sinclair’s esparto boiler, 94

Single cylinder machines, 164

— sheet cutter, 173

Siphon washer for boiled rags, 87

Site for mill, 210

Sixty per cent. white caustic, 177

Size, estimating amount of, 204

—, — nature of, 203

—, making with gelatine, 162

Sizes of sheets, 175

Sizing, 137

Slicer, 151

Smalts, 141

Smell consumer, 183

Smoothers, 158

Smoothness, 159

Soaking wood, 107

Soap, analysing, 208

— and gelatine, 163

— for paper-makers, 163

Soda, action on cellulose compared with bisulphite, 76

— ash, analysing, 205

— bicarbonate for accelerating action of bleaching powder, 112

—, brands, 178

— carbonate for sizing, 138

—, commercial kinds, 177

—, destructive action on cellulose, 64

— drums, emptying, 179

— for esparto, 89

— for isolating cellulose, 63

— in relation to pressure, 64

— liquor from esparto, treatment of, 98

— —, evaporating, 180, 231

— —, removing sodium-sulphur compounds, 191

—, prices, 179

—, proportion for straw, 99

—, recovered, analysing, 205

— —, carbonising, 186

— —, causticising, 187

— —, composition, 186

— recovery, 179

— solutions, table of strengths, 109

—, substances removed from esparto by, 97

Sodium hypochlorite in bleaching, 113

— hyposulphite, analysing, 208

— — for neutralising bleaching powder, 127, 129

— sulphide, oxidising, 191

— sulphite, analysing, 208

— — to neutralise bleaching powder, 128

—-sulphur compounds in soda liquors, 191

— thiosulphate, analysing, 208

— thiosulphate for neutralising bleaching powder, 127, 129

Soft water, objections to, 216

Soluble sulphides for isolating cellulose, 67

Solutions, alum, table of strengths, 143

—, aniline colours, 37

—, aniline sulphate, 37

—, chlorine water, 37

—, iodine, 36

—, neutral mounting, 36

Sorting, 175

— rags, 80

Specific gravity, Twaddle converted into, 109

Spherical rag boiler, 82

Stanhope purifier, 212, 214

Starch and iodide paper, making, 130

—, estimating, 203

— paste for sizing, 138

Starches, analysing, 208

Starching blotting paper, 139

— filter paper, 139

Statistics, 221

Steam and ligno-celluloses, 21

Steaming wood, 107

Stipa tenacissima fibre, 39, 55

Strainers, 147

—, closing plates, 150

—, knotter, 151

Straw, 46, 57

—, amount of bleaching powder needed by, 112

—, boiled, washing, 100

—, boilers for, 99

—, boiling, 100

—, cellulose yield from, 98

—, cleaning, 100

—, composition, 59, 99

—, cutting, 100

—, dimensions of cells, 58

—, general chemical characteristics, 58

— in paper, detecting, 200, 201

—, microscopic features, 57

— paper, source of weakness, 103

—, pressure in boiling, 100

—, proportion of soda for, 99

— pulp, ash, 136

— —, chlorinating, 102

— —, dimensions of fibre, 119

— pulp, draining, 100

— —, dry, preparing, 119

— —, grinding, 101

— —, yield, 99

—, soda treatment, 98

—, treating for paper, 63

— washer, 101

Strengths of alum solutions, table, 143

— of paper, classification, 197

— —, influence of glazing, 198

— —, measuring, 193

Sugar-cane fibre, 59

Sulphide processes, economy of, 68

— —, malodours of, 68

Sulphite processes, objection to, 75

Sulphur, action on cellulose, 130

— and lime for neutralising bleaching powder, 129

Sulphuric acid and cellulose, 12

— — and ligno-cellulose, 22

— — in bleaching pulps, 112

Sulphurous acid for isolating cellulose, 64

— — processes for wood, 70

— — processes, objection to, 75

Sunda, see Sunn hemp.

Sunn hemp, 44, 46, 50

— —, characters, 50

— —, composition, 50

— —, general chemical characteristics, 50

— —, micro-chemical reactions, 50

— —, microscopic features, 50

Synthesis of cellulose, 15

Table of processes for resolving wood, 78

— of strengths of alum solutions, 143

— — — of caustic soda solutions, 109

Teazing needles, 38

Telegram paper, 104

Test paper, making, 130

Testing antichlor, 130

— iodine solution, 36

— paper, 193

— — by rubbing, 197

Textile trade waste, treating for paper, 62

Thickness of paper, gauging, 153

— — —, measuring, 198

Thompson’s rag-bleaching process, 115

Thune’s mechanical wood pulp, 107

Tilghmann’s sulphurous acid process, 70

Tilia grandifolia fibre, 39, 54

Time of boiling rags, 84

Toned paper, 142

Trade statistics, 221

Triacetyl cellulose, 8

Tub sizing, 137

— — on the machine, 160

Twaddle degrees, converting into specific gravity, 109

Ultramarine, 141

Umpherstoil’s beater, 123

Urtica dioica fibre, 52

— heterophylla fibre, 44

Vacuum strainer, 148

Victory cutter, 174

Vinegar plant forming cellulose, 16

Vomiting boiler, 91

Washing boiled esparto, 95

— — rags, 85

— — straw, 100

— out bleaching liquor from half-stuff, 127

Waste paper, pulp from, 104

Water and ligno-cellulose, 21

— at high temperature and cellulose, 15

—, clarifier, 211

—, clarifying, 125

—, filter bags, 126

— for beaters, 125

—, lime salts, 212

— marks, 145, 156

—, Porter-Clark process, 214

— proportion to pulp in beating, 118

—, purification, 211

—, quantity for boiling rags, 84

— resolving wood by, 65

—, settling ponds, 125

—, soft, objections to, 216

—, soluble impurities, 212

Water supply, 210

Web glazing, 167

Webster on analysis of fibres, 42

Weighing paper ash, 134

Weight per ream, 176

Weighting paper, 130

Wet end of machine, 154

— felt, 157

Wheat straw, 98

White fir fibre, 61

— pine for mechanical wood pulp, 108

Width of paper, gauging, 152

Willesden canvas, 219

— paper, 219

— scrim, 219

— welded goods, 220

Willowing adansonia fibre, 103

— jute, 103

— Manilla hemp, 103

— rags, 81

Winding, 160

Wire-cloth, 153

— in rag washer, 87

—, shifting, 156

Wood, acid processes, 69

—, amount of bleaching powder needed by, 112

—, bisulphite processes, 71

—, boiling with sulphites, 74

—, chemical, in paper, detecting, 200

—, cutting up for pulp, 105

—, grinding, 105

—, mechanical, in paper, detecting, 200, 201

—, objection to acid in bleaching, 112

— processes, table of, 78

— pulps, 60

— —, ash, 136

— — beating, 117

— —, dimensions of fibre, 119

— —, dry, preparing, 119

— — from aspen, 108

— — from white pine, 108

— —, mechanical, 105

— —, —, quantitative estimation, 202

— —, statistics, 224

—, resolving by water, 65

—, Schultze’s method of isolating cellulose from, 21

—, soaking, 107

— splitting machine, 74

—, steaming, 107

— suitable for Ekman’s process, 73

—, sulphide treatment, 67

—, sulphurous acid processes, 70

—, treating for paper, 64

Woods, pulp yield of, 77

Wool fibre, character, 31

Wove paper, 156

Wrapping paper, 104

Yankee machine, 164

Yaryan evaporator, 232

Young and Pettigrew’s acid process, 69

Yucca gloriosa fibre, 44, 46

Zinc chloride and cellulose, 13

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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