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Animal treatment. Male 100-g MRC-Wistar or Sprague-Dawley rats were fasted from the evening of the previous day but were given water. Non-fasted 30-35 g Swiss mice were used. Except where specified otherwise, the animals received a standard commercial diet (Wayne Lab Blox, Allied Mills). In the standard experiments, animals were gavaged with 25 mg morpholine (Fisher Scientific Co.) in 10 mL water/rat or 2 mg morpholine in 0.2 mL water/mouse. A stream of NO2 was prepared by suitable mixing (using Teflon tubing) of gas from a cylinder of 106 ppm N0 in N (Linde Division, Union Carbide Corp.) and compressed air. 

Some medium-sized mills have converted part of their output to organic in recent years. Of late even the very biggest concerns like Allied Mills and Archer Daniels Midland have entered the field, doubtless with predictable aspirations for market share. A pioneering... 

FIG. 20-31 Marcy grate-type continuous hall mill. (Allis Mineral Systems, S-oedala Inc. )... 

This was a problem to all the Allies but it was a Picatinny researcher who solved it. Thru patient burning of samples of cotton cloth, for burning time and amount of residual ash, he narrowed down the fabrics to a few good possibilities. Then he traveled to cotton mills in New England and the South to seek still better cloth. Finally a cotton fabric was developed as a suitable substitute for silk... 

The paper and allied products industry comprises three types of facilities pulp mills that process raw wood fiber or processed fiber to make pulp paper and board mills that manufacture paper or board and converting facilities that use these primary materials to manufacture more specialized products such as writing paper, napkins, and other tissue products. The process of converting paper is not a source of water or air pollution, as is the case for the first two facilities. This chapter focuses primarily on the greatest areas of environmental concern within the pulp and paper industry those from pulping processes. 

A bleached kraft pulp mill requires 15,140 to 45,420 L (4000 to 12,000 gal) of water and 8.56 to 12.22 million chu (14 to 20 million Btu) of energy per ton of pulp, of which ca. 4.44 to 5.56 million chu (8 to 10 million Btu) are typically derived from biomass-derived fuel from the pulping process itself.4 Across all facilities, the pulp, paper, and allied products industry is the largest consumer of process water and the third largest consumer of energy (after the chemicals and metals industries).5,6 The large amounts of water and energy used, as well as the chemical inputs, lead to a variety of environmental concerns. 

MnP is the most commonly widespread of the class II peroxidases [72, 73], It catalyzes a PLC -dependent oxidation of Mn2+ to Mn3+. The catalytic cycle is initiated by binding of H2O2 or an organic peroxide to the native ferric enzyme and formation of an iron-peroxide complex the Mn3+ ions finally produced after subsequent electron transfers are stabilized via chelation with organic acids like oxalate, malonate, malate, tartrate or lactate [74], The chelates of Mn3+ with carboxylic acids cause one-electron oxidation of various substrates thus, chelates and carboxylic acids can react with each other to form alkyl radicals, which after several reactions result in the production of other radicals. These final radicals are the source of autocataly tic ally produced peroxides and are used by MnP in the absence of H2O2. The versatile oxidative capacity of MnP is apparently due to the chelated Mn3+ ions, which act as diffusible redox-mediator and attacking, non-specifically, phenolic compounds such as biopolymers, milled wood, humic substances and several xenobiotics [72, 75, 76]. 

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Du rot1 . Trademark of Allied Chem Corp for milling blocks for wool Nylon Ref CondCbemDict (1961), p427... 

Figure 12.5. Jaw, roll, impact, and tumbling equipment for size reduction, (a) Blake-type jaw crusher operates at 200-300 strokes/min (Allis-Chalmers Co.), (b) Smooth roll crusher, for which operating data are in Table 12.8(b). (c) Swing hammer mill operating data in Table 12.7(a). (d) View of a conical ball mill, showing distributions of balls and material and crusting ranges data in Table 12.6(b) (Hardinge Co.). (e) Tube mill with three compartments, length to diameter ratio 3-5. (f) Rod mill in a cylindrical tumbler, LID = 1.2-1.6 data in Table 12.6(d).

Tobacco products Broad and narrow fabrics, yarn and thread mills Miscellaneous textile goods and floor coverings Apparel Miscel- laneous fabricated textile products Lumber and wood products Furniture and fixtures Paper and allied products, except containers Paper-board containers and boxes... 

In the clip, the mill owner s daughter, Daphne Birnley, discovers that Sydney is working at her father s mill under cover. Sydney tries to stop her from exposing him to her father by explaining his new fibers. They are very long copolymers of amino acids and carbohydrates (see Chapter 15) with ionic crosslinks for extra strength plus the ability to repel dirt. She becomes his ally. 

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