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...American Chemical Society and, in your item Explosives from Corn, there is a gross misstatement which reflects greatly on the ability of the many chemists in the corn products industry. The statement at fault is: "300,000,000 quarts of the 'steep water' which the corn starch industry throws away every year...
...steep water" is thrown away. In the manufacture of starch, the corn is first "soaked" or "steeped" in a dilute sulphurous acid water for approximately 36 hours. This soaking removes the soluble mineral matter, gums, dextrins, sugars and proteins to make "steep water." The germ is next removed, and expressed for oil. Hull and fibre are then separated, leaving corn "gluten," and starch, which are separated by flotation. The corn "gluten" which contains approximately 30% unremoved starch, is combined with the hull, fibre and steep water to make a product - corn gluten feed, which is sold to the dairy industry...
Chief Chemist, Union Starch & Refining...
Sugar from Dahlias. The roots, or "tubers," of dahlias contain a starch called inulin. If the tubers are heated and squeezed by a giant hydraulic press, the inulin can be recovered and converted into a syrup which yields fructose, the sugar in fruits. Since this sugar is the most easily oxidized of all sugars and twice as sweet as cane or beet sugar, it might be assimilated in small quantities by diabetics, might flavor the food of fat persons who wish to reduce. Properly cultivated, dahlias yield as much sugar, acre for acre, as do sugar beets...
...Schwartz and Peck found the manufacturers of adhesive tape as secretive about the ingredients and methods of manufacture as they are about the yearly yardage and dollar value of their plaster. Eventually the following list of ingredients became clear: rubber, rosin. "Burgundy" pitch, olibanum, beeswax, zinc oxide, anhydrous lanolin, starch, orris root...