Coffee
Coffee. (frt., Cafe ; Ger., Kaffee.) Coffee Is The Fruit Of A Series Of Plants Belonging To The Family Bubiacecs. The Genus, Known As Coffea, Is Divided By Botanists Into Some Sixty Species, Of Which About Twenty-two Are Referred To America, Fifteen To Africa, And Seven To Asia. There Is ...
Composition Op
Composition Op Cane-mich.—before Detailing The Many Processes And Apparatus Used In Making Sugar, An Idea Must Be Gained Of The Natnre And Characters Of Cane-juice. Mention Has Already Been Made Of The Strueture Of The Sugar-cane. Within The Cells, Is Contained A Sweet Watery Juice, A Sugar-water Holding A Variable ...
Concentration And
Concentration And Graniilation.—the Cane-juice, Reduced To The Condition Of A Clear Solution Of Sugar (with Some Few Salts As Impurities) In Water, Has Next To Be Deprived Of So Much Of Its Water As Will Permit The Sugar To Assume A Solid (usually Crystalline) Form. This Operation, Termed Concentration" And ...
Concentration Of Sulphuric
Concentration Of Sulphuric Acid.—the Sulphuric Acid Made In The Chambers Is Not Strong Enough For Many Of The Purposes To Which It Is Applied. The Acid Can Be Concentrated By Boiling, However, Which Causes The Evaporation Of A Part Of The Water With Which It Is Combined. This May Be ...
Copper
Copper Mordants.—compounds Of Copper, Though Used In Dyeing And Printing To Some Extent* Serve Rather As Oxidizing Agents Or Alterauts, Than For Fixing Colours Upon The Fibre. The Principal Are :— Ammoniuret Of Copper Is Formed By Adding Liquid Ammonia In Excess To A Solution Of Sulphate Of Copper, Till ...
Cotton Manufacture
Cotton Manufacture. The Process Is As Follows : The Winder Successively Fills Her Skewers With Cops Of Yarn, Places Them In The Skewer-rail A, Draws The Threads Between The Guide-wires In The Knee-board, And, Taking A Bobbin In Hand, Attaches The Thread Thereto By Tying It To The Yarn Already ...
Cotton Manufactures Fr
Cotton Manufactures. (fr., Filature De Coton ; Ger, Baumwollenmanufactur.) Cotton Manufacturing, In Its Broadest Sense, May Be Defined As The Sum Of The Processes Necessary To Transform Cotton—the Seed Down Of Gossypeum Herbaceum, And Kindred Plants (see Fibrous Substances—cotton)—into Yarn And Cloth. The Art Is Very Ancient, Having Been Practised ...
Crude Perfumes
Crude Perfumes. Acorus Calamus.—see P. 190. Agar, Agila, Akyaw, Calambak, Eagle-wood, Bayugaru, Or Lignum-aloes.— This Curious Product Is Obtained Chiefly From The Mergui Archipelago, Also From The Islands In The Gulf Of Cambodia, And From Sumatra. It Has Been Described As Consisting Of Lumps Of Consolidated Aromatic Resin, Found Embedded ...
Dawamese Easuish
Easuish, Dawamese, Madjoun, And El Mooen, Are Various Forms In Which The Narcotic Is Prepared. Hashish, Which Is By Far The Moat Common, Is Made By Boiling The Leaves And Flowers Of The Hemp-plant In Water Containing A Little Fresh Butter, Evaporating Down To A Syrupy Consitteuce, And Straining Through ...