USES OF SAWDUST.
FROM IT ARE MADE PAPER, GAS, AND MANY OTHER THINGS. Many are the uses of sawdust. In the days when the sawdust waggon made its lumbering rounds through the streets of most large cities, two commercial uses of sawdust were to sprinkle floors and to shelter lead pipe from cold and glass bottles from breakage. In this era of the use of by-pro-ducts sawdust has a commercial value. It is no longer given away.
One of the recent uses of sawdust is its distillation, resulting in acetic acid, wood naphtha, wood alcohol, and tar. Sawdust may also be burned in special furnaces or mixed with other material for fuel. Sawdust, when saturated with chemicals, can bo effectively used in the manufacture of explosives, but it is more particularly in demand in paper making than for any other purpose.
Gas can be made from sawdust. It is also used for briquettes—i.e.,
blocks of compressed sawdust and wood chips burned for fuel. Even in the protection of glassware against breakage sawdust has been superseded by excelsior, sawdust being regarded as too valuable for such use.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2045, 17 June 1907, Page 7
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186USES OF SAWDUST. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2045, 17 June 1907, Page 7
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