"Stillage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with hydrochloric acid at 2 deg. Tw., which is kept ready prepared in a stone cistern and run into the machine as required (it is not advisable to use acid stronger than this). After passing through the sour the goods are piled in a heap on the stillage for a few hours. The acid attacks the lime soap which was formed during the lime boil, decomposes it and dissolves out the lime with the formation of calcium chloride, while the fat of the soap is liberated, the former ...
— The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics - A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student • Franklin Beech |
