ALCOHOL IN HOSIERY
USE IN ARTIFICIAL SILK. EXTRACT FROM MOLASSES. London, November 25. There would be sufficient alcohol in artificial silk stockings to turn anyone’s head, but it had been converted into acetic acid, the Victorian Agent-General, Mr W. Leitch, stated after a visit to distillery works at HuH. Mr Leitch said he learned that a quarter of the weight of artificial silk stockings consisted of acetic acid and molasses imported from Java. The acetic acid is made from alcohol extracted from the molasses, ■ and is used to break down-the fibres of wood into thread for artificial silk. Mr Leitch suggested that the processes might be applied to Queensland molasses.
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Southland Times, Issue 21264, 10 December 1930, Page 12
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