Making Sugar from Gas.
According to a German " Review of Science for the Year 1894," there is a process now under trial in that country, and also in France, for making sugar " synthetically " by means of common illuminating gas. The gas first enters a box provided with a porous partition upon which platinum has been deposited by some secret process known only to the inventor. The platinum particles act upon the atoms of gas and those of the vapour of water which is introduced at the proper time. In close contact in this manner, condensation and precipitation occur, the residue being commercial sugar of great purity and of highest grade. The cost is said to be much less than that of producing beet sugar, and the owners of the gas sugar making secret claim that they will eventually drive all other sugar producers out of the business.
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Manawatu Herald, 25 April 1895, Page 3
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147Making Sugar from Gas. Manawatu Herald, 25 April 1895, Page 3
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