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...Starch...
...sulfur dioxide; maple sugar often contains 80% cane sugar: prunes often are glazed with glucose, a bacteria breeder: cider is often adulterated with benzoate of soda, as is catsup; jam may be made of low-grade fruit filled with gelatin and water; ice cream is sometimes made of starch and gelatin...
...essential to plants, which "breathe" it. through their leaves. Sunlight working on assimilated CO2 turns it into starch...
Byproducts. "Excellent paper can be made from straw, cornstalks . . . artificial gas from straw . . . starch, flour from sweet potatoes. . . . Rayon from the fuzz on cotton seed. . . . Dynamite, linoleum, flour from peanut shells...
Rubber is a complex hydrocarbon. Fundamental in its composition is isoprene. The organic chemist can make isoprene from such common stuffs as turpentine, petroleum, starch, coal tar or acetylene. News of goldenrod as a likely rubber source gave the casual daily press opportunity to picture farmers sneezing as they harvested the autumn-gorgeous weed. But goldenrod pollen is one of the lesser causes of hayfever. Ragweed, more widespread, is the chief cause...