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DECOLOURIZING

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 915 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DECOLOURIZING , in See also:

PRACTICAL

practical See also:

chemistry and chemical technology, the removal of coloured impurities from a substance. The See also:

AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent most frequently used is See also:

CHARCOAL

charcoal, preferably prepared from See also:

BLOOD

blood, which when shaken with a coloured See also:

SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution frequently precipitates the coloured substances leaving the solution clear. Thus the red See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour of wines may be removed by filtering the See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine through charcoal; the removal of the dark-coloured 1 At the 7th plenary sitting of the second See also:

HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague See also:

CONFERENCE

Conference (See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 7th, 1907) the chiefs of the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish and Mexican delegations, M. de See also:

VILLA

Villa Urratia and M. de la See also:

BARRA, or BARRAY (Scand. Baraey, isle of the ocean)

Barra, announced the determination of their respective governments to accede to the See also:

DECLARATION (from Lat. declarare, to make fully clear, clams)

Declaration of See also:

Paris. 2 This relates to the incident in the Russo-See also:

JAPANESE

Japanese See also:

War of the transformation of See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian vessels which had passed through the See also:

Dardanelles unarmed. impurities which arise in the manufacture of See also:

SUGAR

sugar may be similarly effected. Other " decolourizers " are sulphurous See also:

ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour)

acid, permanganates and manganates, all of which have received application in the sugar See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry.

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