A NEW USE FOR SAWDUST.
THERE are few waste products now, - for human ingenuity finds a use for most things. Sawdust, the accumulation of which "in certain trades "was at ona time regarded as a nuisance, is now turned to many useful purposes; but certainly, few would have, anticipated that it would ever be employed for the production oJ alcohol. Yet it is a fact that works are now in progress for the manufacture of the potent spirit from sawdust. The process has been worked out by E. Simonsen, a Dane; and the method oonsists in treating the sawdust with dilute acid under pressure, by whioh the lignin is converted into sugar; fermentation with yeast follows, and alcohol is the result. ' . •<-
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 27, 7 April 1905, Page 7
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121A NEW USE FOR SAWDUST. Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 27, 7 April 1905, Page 7
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