Straws

There are many reasons why animal, vegetable, or mineral oils are associated with fibre products  

Under appropriate circumstances the oils associated with fibres undergo oxidation and other reactions in the presence of air or through self-oxidation as they dry. These reactions can generate sufficient heat to cause the fibres (many of which are made of combustible materials and all of which have high relative surface area on which reactions can proceed) to reach the point of spontaneous combustion (linters present a particular risk of spontaneous 

Fabrics impregnated with weakly nitrated nitrocellulose, n.o.s. (including toe puffs, nitrocellulose base), see Nitrocellulose Products, p.l61 

Fibres impregnated with weakly nitrated nitrocellulose, n.o.s., see Nitrocellulose 

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CqHqIaNOi. Pale, straw-coloured needles, m.p. 198 C. Found in certain marihe organisms, such as corals and sponges, and in the thyroid gland. 

C. The pentose sugar of straw, cotton-seed hulls and various hemicelluloses, and of some glycosides, including the primeverosides. It is not fermentable and behaves chemically as other sugars. 

The reducing action of sulphurous acid and sulphites in solution leads to their use as mild bleaching agents (for example magenta and some natural dyes, such as indigo, and the yellow dye in wool and straw are bleached). They are also used as a preservative for fruit and other foodstuffs for this reason. Other uses are to remove chlorine from fabrics after bleaching and in photography. 

In a 1-litre three-necked flask, fitted with a mechanical stirrer, reflux condenser and a thermometer, place 200 g. of iodoform and half of a sodium arsenite solution, prepared from 54-5 g. of A.R. arsenious oxide, 107 g. of A.R. sodium hydroxide and 520 ml. of water. Start the stirrer and heat the flask until the thermometer reads 60-65° maintain the mixture at this temperature during the whole reaction (1). Run in the remainder of the sodium arsenite solution during the course of 15 minutes, and keep the reaction mixture at 60-65° for 1 hour in order to complete the reaction. AUow to cool to about 40-45° (2) and filter with suction from the small amount of solid impurities. Separate the lower layer from the filtrate, dry it with anhydrous calcium chloride, and distil the crude methylene iodide (131 g. this crude product is satisfactory for most purposes) under diminished pressure. Practically all passes over as a light straw-coloured (sometimes brown) liquid at 80°/25 mm. it melts at 6°. Some of the colour may be removed by shaking with silver powder. The small dark residue in the flask solidifies on cooling. 

Surfaces are formed in the transition from one state of matter to another, whether the two phases are chemically distinct or not. Thus, surfaces exist at interphases or interfaces between two phases of either the same or different materials. For example, the surface of an ice cube in a glass of water represents an interface between two phases that are identical in chemical composition. The surface of a straw in the same glass of water represents an example of an interface between chemically distinct materials. 

Insulation Boa.rd. The panel products known as insulation board were the earliest commodity products made from fibers or particles in the composite panel area. These are fiber-base products with a density less than 500 kg/m. Early U.S. patents were obtained in 1915 and production began soon thereafter. The initial production used wood fiber as a raw material, but later products were made of recycled paper, bagasse (sugar cane residue), and straw. Schematics of the two major processes still ia use are shown ia Figure 4. 

Iodine Pentafluoride. Iodine pentafluoride is a straw-colored Hquid the ir and Raman spectra of the gas phase have been studied (19,46,47) vapor pressure data are given in References 14 and 48. 

Bromine ttifluoride is commercially available at a minimum purity of 98% (108). Free Br2 is maintained at less than 2%. Other minor impurities are HF and BrF. Free Br2 content estimates are based on color, with material containing less than 0.5% Br2 having a straw color, and ca 2% Br2 an amber-red color. Fluoride content can be obtained by controlled hydrolysis of a sample and standard analysis for fluorine content. Bromine ttifluoride is too high boiling and reactive for gas chromatographic analysis. It is shipped as a Hquid in steel cylinders in quantities of 91 kg or less. The cylinders are fitted with either a valve or plug to faciUtate insertion of a dip tube. Bromine ttifluoride is classified as an oxidizer and poison by DOT. 

A report on the continuous flash pyrolysis of biomass at atmospheric pressure to produce Hquids iadicates that pyrolysis temperatures must be optimized to maximize Hquid yields (36). It has been found that a sharp maximum ia the Hquid yields vs temperature curves exist and that the yields drop off sharply on both sides of this maximum. Pure ceUulose has been found to have an optimum temperature for Hquids at 500°C, while the wheat straw and wood species tested have optimum temperatures at 600°C and 500°C, respectively. Organic Hquid yields were of the order of 65 wt % of the dry biomass fed, but contained relatively large quantities of organic acids. 

After the hair is bleached it has an uimatural straw-like color and is then dyed to the desired tone with either a semipermanent or a permanent hair color product. The dye products designed to color bleached hair to a natural looking blonde shade are called toners. 

Thermoforming and Extrusion. Improved equipment and polymers have increased the capabiUty to extmde and thermoform polypropylene however, consumption of polypropylene in these areas has not grown dramatically. Drinking straws are commonly extmded from polypropylene, however most larger diameter tubes, such as pipes and conduits, are predominantly extmded from other thermoplastics. Extmded sheet is thermoformed into food containers and trays polypropylene is used when microwavabiUty is desired. 

Oxahc acid manufacture via the oxidation of carbohydrates is stiU actively pursued, especially in China (10—12). In India, processes which produce sihca and oxahc acid have been developed (13,14). The raw materials include agricultural wastes, such as rice husks, nut shell flour, com cobs, baggase, straw, etc. 

Product Quality and Specifications. Most of the elemental phosphoms produced is converted to derivatives by the manufacturer. Some white phosphoms is sold on the open market. Typical manufacturers phosphoms analyses for a straw yellow product foUow ... 

Includes wood, wood waste, peat, wood Hquors, railroad ties, pitch, wood sludge, municipal soHd waste, agricultural waste, straw, tires, landfill gases, fish oils, and/or other waste. 

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