Items related to Phormium tenax as a fibrous plant
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ... acid in the proportion of two grains to the ounce of Phormium being previously added to facilitate the change of the gummy matters, starch, &c., into sugar; the object being to insure a good and rapid ferment, in order to break up the cells of the plant, if such was possible. The whole was then cooled down to 80 c, and yeast added; fermentation soon commenced, and went on pretty fast, but when completed the fibre was found to be still difficult to clean, although considerably altered. "The liquor from the preceding experiment was perfectly clear, of a pale yellow colour, and had to a remarkable extent the odour of bitter beer, and undoubtedly a kind of beer could be made from a strong infusion of Phormitm mixed with a moderate quantity of sugar, and then fermented. "Betting.--The last process tried was retting, to which process the varnish on the outer part of the leaf has hitherto proved an insuperable obstacle. "It was thought, however, if the leaves were first broken up by rollers or stampers--or, still better, by a comb with teeth set wider in the back, so as to separate the leaf into filaments without any bruising--so that the gummy matters which bind together the Phormium fibres could be placed at once in direct contact with water, these would soon enter into a state of decomposition, and communicate this to the more inert portions of the plant, and which, if stopped before it had extended to the fibre of the Phormium by its removal from the solution, would give us a product as nearly similar as possible to the home flax, just after retting, and consequently in a fit state to be scutched, with its natural strength of fibre but little affected. Several experiments were therefore made to test this, and some of the results certainly a...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130129438
- ISBN 13 9781130129434
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages50
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