Drying Oils, Boiled Oil, & Solid & Liquid Driers; A Practical Work for Manufacturers of Oils, Varnishes, Printing Inks, Oil-Cloth & Linoleum, Oil-Cake by Louis Edgar Andres, Louis Edgar Andes, Louis Edgar Ands (Paperback / softback, 2012)
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE PROPERTIES OF AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING THE DRYING OILS The number of the drying oils, which are extensively used in the industries, is small as compared with the number of n-drying oils, and even amongst these?candle-nut oil, cedar-nut oil, bempseed oil, wood oil, cherry kernel oil, linseed oil, poppy oil, walimt oil, castor oil, sunflower oil, grapeseed oil?linseed oil is the only one which, apart from the locally used hempseed oil, is important in the preparation of varnishes and paints. Candle-nut, cedar-nut, walnut, sunflower, and grapeseed oils are so rarely produced, and in such small quantities; hempseed oil is used in Eussia alone; wood oil is much too dear, and the imports insufficient; castor oil is excluded from extensive use for these purposes because its drying properties are insufficient, it is, however, highly valued for the preparation of Turkey red oil, of soaps, lubricants, and recently of an indiarubber substitute. There can be doubt that candle-nut oil, and especially wood oil, would become of great importance if they could be produced in quantity and at a price t far removed from that of linseed oil. Under present conditions linseed oil is all important, thanks to its good properties and low price. Candle-nut Oil. Bankulol, Lichtnussol, Lackbaumol. Huile de w Bancoul, huile de Bancoul. The source of this oil is the candle-nut from Aleurites triloba and A. moluccana, which could be placed on the market in very large quantities from Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, Tahiti, and Beunion, but which is t yet to be obtained regularly. Not only the cheapness of the raw material, but the good qualities of its oil, recommend its introduction to oil works. According to Wiesner, the seeds contain 50 to 60 per cent. of oi...