Paper Chinese

I was sharing my appreciation of this exotic bloom with my daughter, Julia, who was seated with me at a table on which the flower sat. To our amazement the flower then increased about four times in both size and vividness of coloration. I ascribed this metamorphosis to the process by which Chinese paper flowers rapidly bloom when placed in water. The paper simply expands as it absorbs the moisture and dyes in the paper give it a more intense color as they go into solution. 

Among the many important inventions credited to the Chinese, paper must surely rank at the very top. Without paper, the progress of civilization would have advanced at a snail s pace. Mass production of newspapers, magazines, books, notepaper, etc, would all be impossible. Business and industry would come to a standstill without paper to record transactions, keep track of inventories, and make payments of large sums of money. Nearly every activity we now take for granted would be a monumental undertaking were it not for paper. 

Obtained from 2-bromo-l-(2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)ethanone (Chinese paper) [6022],... 

Obtained by reaction of 4-methylre-sorcinol with 4-methylphenylacetyl compound at molar ratio 1 1 in solvent in the presence of Lewis acid catalyst [6263] (Chinese paper). 

Preparation by bimolecular condensation of acylphlo-roglucinol derivatives [8404] (Chinese paper). 

A Chinese paper discusses the problems involved in the manufacture of chlorosulfonic acid from sulfur trioxide and hydrogen chloride in sulfuric acid plants. These include the optimum raw gas composition (SOsiHCl molar ratio... 

Recent Chinese papers [110, 111] have described how the growth of Thiobacillus thioparus with varying amounts of vulcanised NR has been investigated. The influence that the bacteria had on the... 

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