The Art of Paper-Making

CHAPTER I.

_CELLULOSE._

Cellulose.--Action of Acids on Cellulose.--Physical Characteristics of Cellulose.--Micrographic Examination of Vegetable Fibres.--Determination of Cellulose.--Recognition of Vegetable Fibres by the Microscope.

=Cellulose.=--Vegetable fibre, when deprived of all incrusting or cementing matters of a resinous or gummy nature, presents to us the true ...