The Efficiency of the Present Process of Natural Indigo Manufacture
Abstract
IN NATURE of September 20 (vol. lxxiv., p. 526) I find mention of a paper read before Section B at the recent meeting of the British Association by Mr. W. Popplewell Bloxam, on a new method of determining indigotin. It is stated that ``the author concludes that the present process of manufacture is a wasteful one, the highest efficiency attained not reaching 50 per cent., whilst on the average only 25 per cent of the indigotin in the leaves is extracted.''
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- November 1906
- DOI:
- 10.1038/075030b0
- Bibcode:
- 1906Natur..75...30B