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[[margin]] May 28/ [[/margin]] Continuation of 2 S
I notice that all fat has not been extracted.  I submitted the residue to slow dessicate and evaporated the dark green brownish fat solution.
I finally obtained a dark green oil which does not [[strikethrough]] smell any further longer [[/strikethrough]] possess anymore CCl4 smell but has however a somewhat rancid smell similar to linseed oil.  It looks as if this oil was [[underlined]] non [[/underlined]] drying because samples kept for more than a month on a watch glass showed no signs of hardening.  It looks to me as if this oil would be of better quality if expressed by mechanical means from the bean
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[[margin]] [[strikethrough]] June 1 [[/strikethrough]] May 31, 1907 [[/margin]]
The residue after extraction of [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] ground green Soy bean with CCl4 is very [[?]] almost white and was submitted to long continued drying at 100◦ C so as to drive off last traces of CCl4 and some peppery tasting residue
[[margin]] June 1. [[/margin]] I try adding some of Thurlows mixture of nitrocellulose + aceton- ^[[insertion]]form [[/insertion]]aldehyd condensation product in acetone solution to Novolak solution and it looks as if it increases the thoughness of the varnish. We must try to verify this in accurate proportions.