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Excerpt from Sugar House Notes and Tables: A Reference Book for Planters, Factory Managers, Chemists, Engineers, and Others Employed in the Manufacture of Cane Sugar
The available sugar is the amount of sugar that can be extracted, expressed as a percentage on the sugar in the juice the figure is entirely empirical, and depends not only on the purity but on the nature of the im purities, especially the glucose and ash, the quality of the lime, the skill in tempering and subsequent Opera tions, particularly in the pan-boiling and the application or otherwise of crystallisation in motion. In no case Should the recovery of first sugar fall below 70 per cent., and with pure juice and the best plant as much as 90 per cent. May be recovered in all sugars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
