By George S. Brady, John A. Vaccari, Henry R. Clauser
The fabrics guide is an encyclopedic, A-to-Z association of all kinds of fabrics, that includes their key functionality homes, significant features and functions in product layout. fabrics contain ferrous and nonferrous metals, plastics, elastomers, ceramics, woods, composites, chemical substances, minerals, textiles, fuels, foodstuffs and common plant and animal elements --more than 13,000 in all. houses are expressed in either U.S. well-known and metric devices and a radical index eases discovering information on each fabric. brought in 1929 and sometimes recognized easily as "Brady's," this complete, one-volume, 1244 web page encyclopedia of fabrics is meant for executives, managers, supervisors, engineers, and technicians, in engineering, production, advertising and marketing, paying for and revenues in addition to educators and scholars. Of the handfuls of households of fabrics up-to-date within the fifteenth variation, the main broad additions pertain to adhesives, activated carbon, aluminides, aluminum alloys, catalysts, ceramics, composites, fullerences, heat-transfer fluids, nanophase fabrics, nickel alloys, olefins, silicon nitride, stainless steels, thermoplastic elastomers, titanium alloys, tungsten alloys, valve alloys and welding and hard-facing alloys. additionally commonly up-to-date are acrylics, brazing alloys, chelants, biodegradable plastics, molybdenum alloys, plastic alloys, recyclate plastics, superalloys, supercritical fluids and power steels. New sessions of fabrics extra contain aliphatic polyketones, carburizing secondary-hardening steels and polyarylene ether benzimidazoles. cancer causing agents and fabrics prone to be cancer-causing in people are indexed for the 1st time. (20021001)
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The red alder is from A. rubra, or A. oregona, growing in the northwestern United States. The wood is reddish-brown, has a fine even grain, is tough and resilient, can be worked easily, and takes a good polish. It has been much used for furniture, cabinetwork, and interior finish, as it rivals mahogany and walnut in appearance. Black alder is from the tree A. glutinosa, widely distributed in the northern hemisphere. It is reddish-white and has a smooth, fine grain, with a density of about 35 lb/ft3 (560 kg/m3).
The complexity of proteins is illustrated by the fact that the formula for egg albumin is C1428H2244N462S14. The heat of pasteurization damages the proteins of the egg white. A small amount of lactic acid and an aluminum salt will stabilize it and allow pasteurizing at 143°F (62°C). Milk albumin is made by coagulating casein. Soybean albumin is used to replace egg albumin in confectionery. Synthetic egg white, or albumin, was made in Germany from fish by extracting the soluble proteins with acetic acid, removing the fat with trichloroethylene, and hydrolyzing with sodium hydroxide.
It is much imitated with embossed split sheepskins, but sheepskin is soft and easily scuffed. Lizard leather, from the Java ring lizard, is another reptile leather valued for women’s shoes. ALLOY. A very old term for the admixture of a precious metal with a metal of lesser value, or with a base metal. This term refers broadly to the combination of at least two atoms or elements. More generally, however, the principal element is a metal, and all are intended for a specific purpose as opposed to the minute quantities of various elements retained from the ore or introduced during the refining process and called impurities.