India-Rubber and Gutta Percha
INDIA-RUBBER AND GUTTA-PERCHA. Translated from the French of T. Seeligmann, G. Lamy Torvilhon and H. Falconnet by John Geddes McIntosh. Royal 8vo.
[Out of print. Second Edition in preparation.]
Contents.
India-Rubber — Botanical Origin — Climatology — Soil — Rational Culture and Acclimation of the Different Species of India-Rubber Plants — Methods of Obtaining the Latex — Methods of Preparing Raw or Crude India-Rubber — Classification of the Commercial Species of Raw Rubber — Physical and Chemical Properties of the Latex and of India-Rubber — Mechanical Transformation of Natural Caoutchouc into Washed or Normal Caoutchouc (Purification) and Normal Rubber into Masticated Rubber — Softening, Cutting, Washing, Drying — Preliminary Observations — Vulcanisation of Normal Rubber — Chemical and Physical Properties of Vulcanised Rubber — General Considerations — Hardened Rubber or Ebonite — Considerations on Mineralisation and other Mixtures — Coloration and Dyeing — Analysis of Natural or Normal Rubber and Vulcanised Rubber — Rubber Substitutes — Imitation Rubber.
Gutta Percha — Botanical Origin — Climatology — Soil — Rational Culture — Methods of Collection — Classification of the Different Species of Commercial Gutta Percha — Physical and Chemical Properties — Mechanical Transformation — Methods of Analysing — Gutta Percha Substitutes — Index.