The net saving in coagulant alone amounted to 30 cents per million gallons.
Antivenomous anticolubrine serum, that is to say, that furnished by horses vaccinated against the venoms of the Cobra and the Krait, does not prevent coagulation by coagulant venoms.
It is easy, however, to obtain active serums specific against the coagulant venoms; it is sufficient to treat these animals by inoculation with progressively increasing doses of the same venoms unheated.
This proteolysis actually manifests itself with weak coagulant doses, for the compact clots formed at the outset soon become soft and then dissolve, like a cube of egg-albumen in an experiment in artificial digestion by trypsin.
This need not surprise us, since the coagulant substances in venoms are destroyed by heating, and the animals vaccinated in order to obtain antitoxic serum are usually inoculated exclusively with heated venoms.
The coagulant substance in these venoms is precipitable by alcohol at the same time as the neurotoxin and other active substances.
Lamb has likewise found that the venom of Vipera russellii loses its coagulant power when heated to 75° C.
One of these substances is coagulant and is found retained by the liver, while the other remains in solution in the plasma, and keeps the blood fluid after issuing from the vessels.
It is also known that ordinary phenol has a coagulant action on the albumins and an oxidizing power on the tissues, which power, if permanent, produces gangrene.
They also show that this turbidity may be easily and certainly removed by the application of coagulant to the raw water during the occasional periods when its character is such as to require it.
There is no reason to believe that the use of thiscoagulant will in any degree affect the wholesomeness of the water.
Thus it happened that the latex from one field was found to have insufficient anti-coagulant present, while that from another field could only be coagulated by the addition of an excess of acid.
In practice it remains the cheapest and safest coagulant known at present.
Another factor influencing this figure would be the effect of using an anti-coagulant on the cuts.
The heading of this chapter must be seen to "beg the question," inasmuch as it leads to the assumption that a coagulant (in the popular sense) is necessary to secure coagulation.
It will be obvious that, given two equal quantities of different latices, different amounts of an anti-coagulant may be required to produce the same effect.
Owing to the shortage of acetic acid during the War, attention was directed towards the possibility of making an effective coagulant locally by what is termed the "dry distillation of wood"--i.
A large number of estates now use sodium sulphite in very small quantities as an anti-coagulant and a preservative for latex in the field.
This acid solution is an effective coagulant in fairly small quantity.
Instead the anti-coagulant is placed in the bottom of the bucket prior to the commencement of collection.
Of these the substances which would evaporate would be probably the water and the coagulant in most cases.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coagulant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
