
The Preparation of Plantation Rubber
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- THE PREPARATION
- OF
- PLANTATION RUBBER
- SIDNEY MORGAN, A.R.C.S.
- WITH A PREFACE AND A CHAPTER ON VULCANIZATION
- HENRY P. STEVENS, M.A. (Oxon.,) Ph.D., F.I.C.
- CONSTABLE & CO. LTD. LONDON : BOMBAY : SYDNEY 1922
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE PREPARATION OF PLANTATION RUBBER
- PART I
- FIELD OPERATIONS
- CHAPTER I
- PLANTING
- CHAPTER II
- FIELD MAINTENANCE
- CHAPTER III
- THINNING OF AREAS
- CHAPTER IV
- TAPPING SYSTEMS
- CHAPTER V
- TAPPING AND COLLECTING
- CHAPTER VI
- TRANSPORT OF LATEX AND COAGULUM
- PART II
- FACTORY OPERATIONS
- CHAPTER VII
- PRELIMINARY TREATMENT OF LATEX
- CHAPTER VIII
- COAGULATION
- CHAPTER IX
- PREPARATION OF SHEET RUBBER
- CHAPTER X
- PREPARATION OF CREPE RUBBER
- CHAPTER XI
- DRYING OF RUBBER
- CHAPTER XII
- SORTING, GRADING, AND PACKING
- PART III
- MACHINERY AND BUILDINGS
- CHAPTER XIII
- MACHINES
- CHAPTER XIV
- FACTORIES
- CHAPTER XV
- OTHER BUILDINGS
- CHAPTER XVI
- OTHER BUILDINGS (continued) AND SITUATION OF BUILDINGS
- PART IV
- THE FINISHED RUBBER
- CHAPTER XVII
- DEFECTS IN CREPE RUBBERS
- CHAPTER XVIII
- DEFECTS IN SHEET RUBBER
- PART V
- GENERAL
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHOICE OF COAGULANT
- CHAPTER XX
- SPECIAL METHODS OF PREPARATION
- PART VI
- VULCANISATION
- (By Dr. H. P. Stevens)
- CHAPTER XXI
- INTRODUCTORY DEALING WITH TREATMENT AND VULCANISATION
- CHAPTER XXII
- TESTING OF PLANTATION RUBBER
- CHAPTER XXIII
- THE PROPERTIES OF RUBBER
- INDEX
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