Word: steep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be fine in the Spring, and did not many a rich philosophy begin in a garden? By and by comes ___ and, all a bubble, brings me his album; a mighty fine job it is, yet, bless my soul, for an address book ten dollars 'is very steep...
...Steep Water...
...report the spring meeting of the 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...
...that only about 5 lb. are produced annually and the price is $500 per lb. Professor Bartow and his able associate, Dr. W. W. Walker, found a way to extract inositol from the water in which corn is soaked to make cornstarch. The 300,000,000 quarts of this "steep water" which the cornstarch industry throws away every year would yield by the Bartow-Walker extraction method 1,000,000 lb. of inositol at low cost. Final details of the process have been worked out in the past two months. "Until that time," said Dr. Bartow last week...