Alkali-proof properties

ACF can be a deoxidizer to recycle the precious metal. ACFs have acid-proof and alkali-proof properties. 

The fusibility of a substance is not solely Influenced by tho elements which enter into its composition, but also by tho manner in which these elements ate arranged and oombined together. The chief constituent of clay—alumina—is a base which, In combination with silica, forms one of the most refractory substances, and this property is possessed by the clays in proportion as they ore unmixed. with other bases, as alkalies, oxide of iron, lime, arid magnesia, in the order here given. In tho purer clays, which for ajl ordinary purposes may be considered fire-proof, the refractory quality is augmented in proportion to the quantity of silica they contain. 

The best evidence for the formation of 8 -D-isosaccharinic acid in the sugar-alkali reaction is the recent observation" that treatment of lactose, maltose, or 4-0-methyl-D-glucose with lime-water at room temperature provides initially a mixture of saccharinic acids consisting almost exclusively of a -D-isosaccharinic acid plus an acid with the properties of Nef s /3 -D-isosaccharinic acid [brucine salt, m. p. 185 to 210 (dec.), [a]n - 20 to —22° lactone, [ajp -)-6 to - -8.5°]. An experimental proof that this substance possesses the isosaccharinic acid structure would provide the necessary evidence that it is, indeed, the epimer of a -D-isosaccharinic acid. 

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