Indian Sugar June 1952

The representative of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry will be the chairman of the committee. [...] The average content of the sugar in beets exceeds 15% but some of the sugar (usually 5 to 15 per cent of the total) is left in the molases and pulp. [...] Almost one-eighth of the sugar thus went along with most of the other soluble constituents of the cane in the 37 million gallons of molasses produced.' The importance of molasses is seen to be even greater when it is considered that the composition and nature of molasses affects the crystallization of sugar and governs the yields obtainable. [...] The present line of investigation at Ohio State University also essential to the growth of many microorganisms and in aimed at a complete explanation of its structure and the together with the sterols and trace constituents must be considered in developing uses for molasses in the produmanner of its formation in the course of sugar mantion of chemicals by fermentation. [...] In the case of aluminium foil water vapour penetrates by diffusions but only through openings such as pinholes." While in the case of plastic films "water vapour pentrates through the whole area of the film by solution in the plastic and diffusion from one side to the other." Hence "because of the difference in the method of pentration combinations of aluminium foil and plastic sheet-