Extraction of Potash from Wool in the Grease
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A short 1876 article describing H. Fischer's apparatus of Hanover for recovering potash from the suint (grease) of raw wool. Four vats on a rotating frame with a hand crank pass the wash water successively over batches of wool to produce a concentrated lye with little labor. The article gives the step-by-step operating cycle and yield figures from Maumené, Fuchs and the Döhren wool-washing works, and lists European potash-from-grease works.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- December 16, 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
- Archive notes
- Reduced to 75% to fit on page
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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