Containing the latex; -- applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.
This difference arises from several causes, but principally from the addition, to the latex which is fit to be gathered, of other kinds of latex of very inferior value, or even of any dust-like matter.
Shelton, another Ohio member who is a chemist, had available, an emulsion called "Goodrite Latex VL-600.
The latex is strained and mixed with some acid, usually acetic, in order to coagulate or thicken it.
The juice or latex flows best about sunrise, and so the natives who collect it have to be early risers.
Then he makes a dabree, a large tray about half a foot deep, in which balata latex is coagulated.
It is cured through and through, whilst the latex is being coagulated, with the smoke of palm-nuts.
If it rains hard whilst the trees are being tapped, the latex curdles in the collecting-cups, and the seringueiro has to collect a supply of negro-heads instead of fresh milk.
At the base of the trunk a calabash is put, and the latex trickles down into this by way of the zigzag cuts.
Rubber of various qualities is now made from the latex of the Jelutong tree.
The latex is poured into the dabree, where it naturally coagulates into sheets.
Later in the morning the workers make the rounds of the trees with large milk cans, gathering the latex from the cups.
Here the latexis weighed, and when each collector has been credited with the amount he has brought, it is dumped into huge vats.
He must be careful not to cut into the wood of the tree, as such cuts not only injure the tree but permit the sap to run into the latexand spoil the rubber.
The jungle method of hardening rubber is to dip a wooden paddle in thelatex and smoke it over a fire of wood and palm nuts.
The tapping must be done early in the day, for the latex or rubber juice stops flowing a few hours after sunrise.
When the tapper has made the proper gash in the bark he inserts a little spout to carry the dripping latex to a glass cup beneath.
The next step is to extract the particles of rubber from the latex and to harden them.
In Hevea, Manihot and others the latex yields caoutchouc.
The majority contain a milky juice or latex in their tissues which exudes on cutting or bruising.
The milkweed may be used to illustrate how latex may be of service in warding off creeping insects.
When such a plant is punctured or torn the latex flows out, and as soon as it is exposed to the air it becomes more and more sticky until it hardens.
It is from the latex of certain trees that India rubber is obtained, but it may be observed in many plants, notably the milkweeds, which have received their popular name on account of it.
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The wages paid latex gatherers in Uganda are from $1 to $1.
The latex collected is put in tanks five feet long and six inches wide.
At the end of the gutter a tin spout connects, down which the latex runs into a tin cup on the ground.
The latex mattress was introduced to the general public in 1938.
A later development was the introduction of inner-spring units with layers of latex used in place of the usual upholstering material.
Because of their comparative thinness, these latex mattresses usually are sold with special higher-than-average box springs.
Three litres of latexare necessary in order to obtain one litre of rubber.
The collection of the latex from the seringueira and the subsequent process of coagulation were simple enough.
The seringa preta exuded latex all the year round, even during the rainy season.
In that region the trees exuded latexmore abundantly when they began to have new leaves in October.
The latex of the seringueira in the Arinos region was of a beautiful white, quite liquid, and with a pungent, almost sickening, odour.
One night was sufficient for the latex to coagulate thoroughly and be properly compressed into cakes, weighing each about 22½ kils.
Upon the latexwas placed a solution of alum and warm water.
Interesting was the sorveira (Collophora utilis), a tree which gave latex that was quite delicious to drink, but could not be coagulated.
On an average twenty trees give about one litre of latex a day.
Each cut only exudes latex for a comparatively short time, merely an hour or so.
When the weather was windy all the latex seemed to contract to the summit of the trees and hardly flowed at all from the incisions.
The more milk orlatex one judiciously extracts from them, the more they give, up to a certain point.
Thus when the plant is scratched or pierced, a drop of this milky latex comes out and at once hardens over the wound.
The rubber is derived from the resinous latex or milky juice, which pours out from any wound in the bark of certain trees and creeping plants.
A very extraordinary exception to the general rule that latex is highly poisonous, is found in the famous Cow Tree of Venezuela.
We have not yet encountered any case in which it was found necessary to treat the latex with an antiseptic or disinfectant substance for the prevention of "spot" disease.
In view of the presence of the fine particles of dirt, to which allusion has been made, fine sieving of the latex appears to be essential, especially when sheet-rubber is to be prepared.
The belt was operated by hand-power, and the height of the latextrays was adjustable.
But we still have only 1 gallon of real latex present in the diluted latex, and it is only necessary to add sufficient acid to coagulate this gallon--i.
A gang should be taken, a small quantity (say a quart) of water poured into the first bucket, and this dilute latex used progressively in all the buckets of that gang of tappers.
The reception and standardisation of latex by dilution has already been discussed in Chapter VII.
The solution of sodium bisulphite should be poured into the latexin as uniform a distribution as possible.
There should be an outside, open verandah upon which latex may be received, etc.
The latex is diluted with two, three, or four volumes of water and coagulated with acid in a vessel which is rotated with a churning motion.
On small estates it is an easy matter for coolies to carry the latex to the factory, but on larger estates many difficulties may arise, which may also militate against the successful use of other means of transport.
On some estates this practice is not found necessary, but a quantity of solution is always placed in the bottom of the reception vessels prior to the straining of latex into them.
This thickness of coagulum, when prepared from latex not exceeding a standard of 1-1/2 lbs.
The latex oozes from the freshly cut bark, runs down the converging grooves to their point of union, and is caught in a small glass cup or other vessel suspended under a tiny spout at the apex of the V.
In about half an hour the acid coagulates the latex (like rennet in making junket from milk) into a soft, pure white mass, about two inches thick and of the area of the pan.
The latex that oozes from the grooves is a pure white, sticky fluid resembling milk; about a tablespoonful is obtained each day from each tree.
After the trees have been tapped the latex is collected in carefully cleaned tin buckets, brought to the factory and strained into huge earthenware tubs.
The white lines are the latex running down the grooves into the glass cup at the bottom.
Dozens of native and Chinese men and boys are employed in this process, some of the latter being so small that they can scarcely carry the two buckets of latex on the bamboo stick over the shoulder.
After the flow of latex has ceased for the day a narrow strip hardens along each groove, like gum on a cherry tree.
The amount of latex in the cup seems greater than it really is because of the water upon which it floats.
In each cup is a little water to prevent the latex from coagulating and sticking to the bottom.
Latex also occurs in the leaves of the tree to the extent of about 9% of the dried leaves, and this may be removed from the powdered leaves by the use of appropriate solvents, but the process is not practicable commercially.
As the latex flows freely the trees are tapped by making incisions in the same fashion as in india-rubber trees, and the balata is obtained by evaporating the milky fluid.
The latex flows slowly where an incision is made through the bark, but not nearly so freely, even in the rainy season, as the india-rubber latex.
The latex which furnishes balata is secreted in the cortex between the bark and wood of the tree.
The latex exudes and fills these channels, from which it is removed and converted into gutta by boiling in open vessels over wood fires.
The work is usually carried on in the wet season when the latex is more fluid and more abundant.
Sometimes when the latex is thick water is added to it before boiling.
Defn: A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes).
Defn: Containing the latex; -- applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "latex" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
