The Manufacture of Paper: With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-MakingSindall, R. W. (Robert Walter)
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The Manufacture of Paper: With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-Making
Sindall, R. W. (Robert Walter)
Papermaking
Boil the paper with a mixture of alcohol and sulphate of alumina. If
no dye is extracted or a fluorescent solution is formed, we have an
inorganic pigment, or eosine, phloxine, rhodamine, safranine, or one
of their allies. Add bleaching powder solution, and heat. If the paper
is bleached, add concentrated hydrochloric acid. A violet colour shows
safranine or an analogue. If there is no colour, but the fluorescence
disappears, we have eosine, phloxine, rhodamine, or one of their
allies. If the paper is not bleached test for inorganic colouring
matters. Cutch brown is partly but not entirely bleached.
If the alumina solution gives a red or yellow solution without
fluorescence, add to it concentrated sodium bisulphite. If bleaching
takes place, heat a piece of the paper with dilute spirit. A red
extract shows sandal wood, fuchsine, etc. If there is little or no
extract, we have acid fuchsine or one of its allies. If the bisulphite
causes no bleaching, boil a piece of the paper with very dilute
hydrochloric acid. If the colour is unchanged, heat another piece of
the paper with dilute acetate of lead. If no change takes place, we
have an azo dye. If the colour turns to a dark brownish red, we have
cochineal or the like. If the boiling with very dilute hydrochloric
acid darkens the colour we have a substantive cotton dye.
2.--YELLOW AND ORANGE DYES.
Heat some of the paper with a not too dilute solution of tin salt in
hydrochloric acid. If the colour is unchanged, with a colourless or
yellow solution, boil some more paper with milk of lime. A change to
reddish or brown shows turmeric or a congener. Absence of change shows
phosphine, quinoline yellow, or a natural dye-stuff. If the acid tin
solution turns the paper red, and then quickly bleaches it to a pale
yellow, we have fast yellow, orange IV., metanil yellow, brilliant
yellow, or the like. If the tin turns the paper greyish, heat another
portion with ammonium sulphide. A blackening shows a lead or iron
yellow. If there is no change, we have naphthol yellow, auramine,
azoflavine, orange II., chrysoidine, or one of their allies.
3.--GREEN DYES.
Heat a sample of the paper in dilute spirit. If the spirit acquires
no colour, warm for a short time with dilute sulphuric acid. If both
paper and solution become brownish red, we have logwood plus fustic. If
this fails, boil with concentrated hydrochloric acid. A yellow solution
shows green earth. If this fails, boil with concentrated caustic soda.
Browning shows chrome green. If the spirit becomes blue, it is a case
of paper which has been topped with blue on a yellow, brown, or green
ground. The solution and the insoluble part are separately tested. The
case is probably one of an aniline blue dyed over a mineral pigment. If
the spirit becomes green, heat with dilute hydrochloric acid. If the
fibre is completely or nearly bleached, and the acid turns yellow, the
dye is brilliant green, malachite green, or one of their allies.
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