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pan then distillate in high vacuum of making lactid. His lactid baking powder keeps better than any other except the standard Bakery Powder of Royal Bakery Powder Co.
[[left margin]] Evening went to Meeting of Engineering Society with Buchanan to listen to their report of engineering conference in France. [[/left margin]]
Stayed at University Club started reading; [[underline red]] "Martyrdom of Mankind" by Reade [[/underline red]]
Feb 11. Left early for Perth Amboy  Arrived there at 10A.M.  Nice mild weather feels like early spring. [[underline red]] Trouble [[/underline red]] is more [[underline red]] serious than I imagined [[//underline red]].  
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All work stopped in transparent department except some experiments.  Idle men busy painting and cleaning.  Trouble consists in pipe - bits, cracking and splitting if touched
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with knife, just like badly annealed glass. [[underline red]] Shannon [[/underline red]] who has department in charge is away at wedding of his brother.  [[underline red]] Interrogated Rossi [[/underline red]] and [[underline red]] Byck [[/underline red]] also [[underline red]] Gothelf [[/underline red]] who arrived there yesterday.  Two hypothesis open 1: Either defective sulphite or other conditions bring about incomplete combination (There is but 0.16% NaOH equivalent for sulphite to react as catalytic agent. 2: Combination is further than usually and there is lack of free phenol to insure necessary plasticity [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] 3: [[Details?]] in operation have reduced possibility of annealing and thus cause extreme brittleness.  Immediately experiments and tests and analysis suggested. [[underline red]] May be our formaldehyde obtained from [[/underline red]]