Excerpt from Reading List on Molasses The ash is interesting because of its high potash content and the very low soda content. Even in the presence of a large excess of. Soda salts in the soil, the sugar cane assimilates potash if available; and if not, it withers and dies. The potash content, which depends upon the nature of the soil, varies from 2 to During the war, because of the high cost Of potash, serious attempt was made to recover this potash, and a plant was erected in California. The molasses was first fermented, ...
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Excerpt from Reading List on Molasses The ash is interesting because of its high potash content and the very low soda content. Even in the presence of a large excess of. Soda salts in the soil, the sugar cane assimilates potash if available; and if not, it withers and dies. The potash content, which depends upon the nature of the soil, varies from 2 to During the war, because of the high cost Of potash, serious attempt was made to recover this potash, and a plant was erected in California. The molasses was first fermented, the alcohol dis tilled, the yeast separated and the waste or Slop evaporated to about 30??? Be, and then burned in a reverberatory furnace. About 4 to 6% ash containing 36 to 38% potash was obtained, which was sold as such to the fertilizer industry. With the return to a normal price the process will probably not be a profitable one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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