Sugars pulverized

Punshon-Explosive. Patented in 1870 consisted of NC soaked for 12 hrs in a sugar soln, and an oxidizer, such as a nitrate. Another expl, patented by the same inventor in 1875, was a 70% Dynamite contg either peat or toasted peas as absorbants, to which pulverized NC could be added. The third expl patented by Punshon (1880) consisted of nitric and picric acids absorbed on a porous material such as asbestos, and loaded into cartridges which were painted with a mixt of Na silicate and powdered glass Punshon was also the inventor of Qxonite and Victorite (qv)... 

SUGAR MILL The term applied to a sugar cane factory, where sugar cane stalks are converted into raw sugar, or to the equipment that mechanically crushes and pulverizes the sugar cane stalks prior to extraction of the sugar-containing juices. 

In 1901 Henri Moissan pulverized some American columbite, mixed with it some sugar charcoal, compressed the mixture, and heated it from seven to eight minutes in his electric furnace, using a current of one thousand amperes under fifty volts. After volatilizing all the manganese and part of the iron and silicon, he obtained a melt containing niobium and tantalum combined with carbon. 

J. Howden of San Francisco, Calif proposed replacing Guhrdynamite by a Dynamite consisting of NG 75 absorbed by 25 parts of a mixt consisting of pulverized sugar, K nitrate and Mg carbonate. This was known as Howden s Dynamite (Vol 5 of Encycl, p D1588-L). 

Schindler Powder. Chlorate expl patented in Engl in 1893 contg K. chlorate 60, pulverized anthracite 25, and sugar 15%. See also under Chlorate Explosives in Vol 2, C206-L Ref Daniel (1902), 703... 

Areas for packaging and handling of pulverized sugar, and cocoa... 

The pills, having been completed either by hand or the machine, are, if very moist, to be spread out upon a sheet of paper with the edges turned up, or upon the bottom of a shallow box, to dry somewhat they are finally introduced into a pill-box, if for dispensing, or into a bottle if made to keep on hand. In either case, some dry powder, such as starch, liquorice-root, or pulverized sugar, should be introduced to keep them from sticking together. 

Material Fine/medium powder Fly ash, pulverized coal, plastic powders, alumina, granular sugar, pharma excipients Course powder Sand, salt, granules, mineral powders, glass beads Cohesive fine powder Cement, corn starch, tit anium dioxide, carbon-black powder, many pharma actives Granular Plastic pellets, wheat, large glass beads, tablets, course sand, seeds... 

Pulverized fuel ash (grits) 9 — Pol/eBiylerie pellets 10 — Granulated sugar tl — Peariite... 

Pulverize the senna with the coriander, and sift out ten ounces of the mixed powder boil the remainder with the figs and liquorice, in four pihts of water, to one half express and strain the liquor, which is then to be evaporated to about a pint and a half dissolve the sugar in it, add this syrup by degrees to the pulps, and lastly mix in the sifted powder. 

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