Mineral adulterants may, of course, be detected by an estimation and analysis of the ash, after making due allowances for variations due to differences in different kinds of the same dyewoods.
The common adulterants are wheat-flour, or East Indian arrow-root, and plantain-meal.
The author places no reliance on the specific gravity test, as he finds that mutton dripping, and other fats likely to be used as adulterants of butter, may acquire a specific gravity above .
The infusion of true saffron is not altered by those reagents, but that of either of the above-mentioned adulterants is rendered opaque, and is at length precipitated.
Lemon juice is frequently adulterated, the adulterants being water, sugar, or gum, and sulphuric or acetic acid.
Its common adulterants are alcohol and oil of turpentine.
For it is, or should be, in fact, clearly understood that the kerosene or fire test oil adulterants do not evaporate like turpentine when put into a pigment and spread upon a surface.
Carbonate of lead, sulphate, and carbonate of baryta, gum, and starch, are the usual adulterants mentioned.
Barium carbonate and sulphate are usually enumerated as occasional adulterants of bread, but there is no modern authentic instance of this.
It has been clearly ascertained that large quantities of vinegar sold in this country contain injurious adulterants and impurities.
The mass is washed and neutralised with an alkali, when the appearance of the midrib and veins of the leaves of the common adulterants are easily recognised.
Naturally, the more flesh left on the greater the weight, particularly as loose flesh will absorb a large quantity of tannin, and, unfortunately, of adulterants which are frequently used for weighting common leathers.
The adulterants of these substances are generally harmless, as they usually consist of flavoring extracts, sugar, starch, flour, and animal fats.
The adulterants are usually inert and harmless substances, such as flour, mustard, or linseed oil; their presence is obviated by the use of the whole peppercorns, ground as needed.
These substances are extensively adulterated, but the adulterants are almost without exception harmless.
It will be wise, however, in the majority of cases when the presence of chemical preservatives and adulterants is suspected, to send the article to a chemist for analysis.
The adulterants consist of cotton-seed, corn, mustard, and peanut oils.
Practically all of the adulterants of mustard can only be detected by intricate chemical tests.
Absolutely Pure--free from coloring matter, chemical solvents, or adulterants of any kind, and therefore in full conformity to the requirements of all National and State Pure Food Laws.
The chief adulterants of ground cloves are spent cloves, allspice, and ground nutshells.
The principal adulterants are wheat, corn, and rice flour.
Adulterants in pepper are detected mainly by the use of the microscope.
The adulterants are usually of a starchy nature, as rice or corn meal, and the product is often colored with some red dye.
The most common adulterantsare starch, cocoa shells, and occasionally iron dioxid and other pigments to give color, also foreign fats to replace the fat removed and to give the required plasticity for molding.
It contains a brief statement of the adulterants likely to be found and the reason for their use.
Many of theseadulterants can be detected only by the aid of the microscope.
Chicory and most of the other adulterants of coffee contain no oil, but do contain caramel, which is quickly extracted by the water producing a zone of brown color about such particles.
Detection of the Common Food Adulterants BY EDWIN M.
Other adulterants of cream of tartar are acid calcium phosphate, starch, gypsum, and alum.
Among adulterantsare rye meal, bran, beans and peas, cocoa shells, and even sawdust.
If ground coffee is put into a glass of cold water, it floats on the top and remains hard, while several of the adulterants named soften and sink to the bottom of the glass.
Sometimes adulterants find their way by accident into our food.
As we have already remarked adulterants are added for the sake of colour, either because the public demand certain colours, or to hide fraud.
To many foods adulterants are added as preservatives, the nature and quantity of such additions is settled by Act of Parliament.
The test by the specific gravity is available, since most of the adulterants render the balsam specifically lighter, especially alcohol, but also copaiba balsam (specific gravity, O.
Adulteration and adulterantsare considered more fully in chapter XVII.
Microscopical Society states that many members of that scientific body have looked into the alleged adulterations of food products and find them not as general as many suppose, and the adulterants found were in most cases harmless.
The adulterants of evil mixed with the good in our lives must be removed.
Then isn't it strange that we are apt to pay so little attention to the adulterants in character that are the cause of so much of the world's sorrow?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adulterants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
