ARTIFICIAL SILK.
A STORY IN FOUR JARS. The story of artificial silk 'manufacture' is really told in four glass jars, says a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. The first one contains spruce chips, the basis of most artificial silks; the second, strips of sulphite wood pulp; the third alkali cellulose, the wood pulp ground up; the fourth, a brown viscous liquid of the consistency of treacle, which, when spurted • out through platinum nozzles, gives _ tlio single filament of artificial silk.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19040, 10 June 1925, Page 14
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