Recommended specifications for quicklime and hydrated lime for use in the cooking of rags for the manufacture of paper
Series: Circular of the Bureau of Standards -- no. 96
Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1920
Place of publication: [Washington
Language: eng
Subjects: Lime -- Standards; Paper -- Standards
Other titles: Specifications for quicklime and hydrated lime
Notes: At head of title: Department of Commerce. Bureau of Standards.  S.W. Stratton, director

June 15, 1920

Running title: Specifications for quicklime and hydrated lime

"This is the first of a series of specifications for the lime used in various chemical industries.  To assist in the development of these specifications, the Bureau of Standards has called together an interdepartmental conference on chemical lime, composed of representatives of the Geological Survey and Bureau of Mines ... the Bureau of Soils, Bureau of Chemistry and Forest Service ... and the Nitrates Division of the War Department ..."

The present specification is based on a draft originally prepared by F.A. Curtis, chief of the paper section, Bureau of Standards. cf. p. [1]