Hand-Book of Common Salt (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... which Government provide, salt is made at a loss or at an almost nominal profit. This remarkable but absolutely true statement, refers to a few places in which the size of the separate salt property has been reduced by its native owner to a few hundred square feet. It is clear, that a corner knocked off the most valuable garden may be so small that its produce will not pay for the living of a single gardener to work it. Such or bordering on it is the state of many small ryots in India. There are many degrees of loss and profit from the small salterns referred to, to the salines on the Mediterranean Coast, some of which are as much as twenty square miles in extent. Sir Arthur Cotton, says "The native mode of manufacture is open to the same objections as their other operations, viz., that of carrying it on upon too confined a scale, and without capital." The larger the site the more economically can it be turned to advantage, the greater the opportunity for the use of machinery, and retrenchment in various ways. This is so much of a truism, that it is needless to pursue the subject further, than to say, that in salt manufacture especially, the profit, is directly as the area. chapter xl tee construction Sf working of salterns. First principles.--In planning salt gardens, the parts of the work should correspond to the stages of the process of manufacture in position, area and level, as far as possible. The stages of the process are two, the first in which water is collected, exposed to evaporation, purified of suspended matters and of calcium sulphate; it terminates when the brine marks 25 Beaume. The second stage, or that of crystallization takes the brine from 25" to 30 B. If the residual salts are required, a third stage is added. For...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... which Government provide, salt is made at a loss or at an almost nominal profit. This remarkable but absolutely true statement, refers to a few places in which the size of the separate salt property has been reduced by its native owner to a few hundred square feet. It is clear, that a corner knocked off the most valuable garden may be so small that its produce will not pay for the living of a single gardener to work it. Such or bordering on it is the state of many small ryots in India. There are many degrees of loss and profit from the small salterns referred to, to the salines on the Mediterranean Coast, some of which are as much as twenty square miles in extent. Sir Arthur Cotton, says "The native mode of manufacture is open to the same objections as their other operations, viz., that of carrying it on upon too confined a scale, and without capital." The larger the site the more economically can it be turned to advantage, the greater the opportunity for the use of machinery, and retrenchment in various ways. This is so much of a truism, that it is needless to pursue the subject further, than to say, that in salt manufacture especially, the profit, is directly as the area. chapter xl tee construction Sf working of salterns. First principles.--In planning salt gardens, the parts of the work should correspond to the stages of the process of manufacture in position, area and level, as far as possible. The stages of the process are two, the first in which water is collected, exposed to evaporation, purified of suspended matters and of calcium sulphate; it terminates when the brine marks 25 Beaume. The second stage, or that of crystallization takes the brine from 25" to 30 B. If the residual salts are required, a third stage is added. For...

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Theclassics.Us

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United States

Release date

September 2013

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September 2013

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246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

68

ISBN-13

978-1-230-36812-2

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9781230368122

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1-230-36812-4



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