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A Comparison Between The Percent Of Maltose Sugar In The Malt Wort And The Characteristics Of The Malt, William Black

Bachelors’ Theses

Interest in this problem was brought about through working with malt in a malting laboratory. The curiosity of the author prompted research along the lines herein explained and a correlation between the amount of maltose in a malt wort and other variable factors explained in the following chapters was sought.

There has been a great deal of work done in the malting field which adapts itself readily to organic research. The chemistry of malt and malt products has arrived at a state where regular standard analysis can be applied. However, the research possibilities are practically unlimited and this work done …

A Study Of The Temperature Of Gelation And Solubility Range For Paraffin Waxes In Several Solvents, Stanley Francis Gebarski

Bachelors’ Theses

In organic literature and text books a certain melting point of paraffin is taken as indicating a certain range of paraffin hydrocarbons and the discussion terminated at that point.

A Comparison Of Ths Digestive Powers Of Trypsin And Papain On Casein And The Effect Of Certain Mild Antiseptics On These Powers, Joseph E. Steker

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to study the effect of certain mild antiseptics, such as Benzoic acid, Boric acid, salicylic acid, Phenol, Cresol, Thymol, on the digestive action of the enzymes Trypsin and Caroid (papain). A thorough perusal of the literature reveals only a small amount of data dealing with the influence of common antiseptics on enzyme action. Because of the important uses of enzymes in industry and the need of antiseptics for protective action, this problem is of great importance. The author wishes to acknowledge the kind cooperation of Dr. John R. Koch, Head of the Department of …

A Study Of The Decomposition Potentials Of A Commercial Gluconic Acid Bath, Roman L. Pozorski

Bachelors’ Theses

The study of electrochemistry is not only fascinating and worthwhile, but essential to the student of chemistry in the understanding of many theories and chemical phenomena. Though electrochemistry is still in its infancy, numerous substances are prepared electrolytically in industry. It is reported that about 15% of all the chemical goods manufactured are prepared by electrochemical industries. Of the various types of studies, in electrochemistry, the one which appears to be most appealing is the analysis of chemical reaction sin which electrochemical methods are used. The determination of decomposition potentials is one of these methods. A knowledge of decomposition values …

The Influence Of Ph On The Activity Of Trypsin And Papain (Caroid) As Measured By A Modification Of The Northrup Gravimetric Casein Method, Frank W. Dragan

Bachelors’ Theses

Hydrogen ion concentrations have long been recognized as an essential factor in many biochemical processes.

The influence of hydrogen ion concentration upon enzyme activity has been of especial importance as proteolytic enzymes are rapidly gaining in use in various industries, principally the tanning industry.

The Effect Of Sodium Fluoride On The Bright Plating Range Of Chromium, Ernst Curschmann

Bachelors’ Theses

Chromium is used very extensively at the present time as an exterior plate over other metals. It has found favor not only because of its brilliant blue, untarnishable lustre, but also because of its extreme hardness. The great increase in the demand for chromium plate in recent years, rapidly relegating nickel plate into the background, has resulted in increased research and experimentation .in the field of chromium plating, in the endeavor to provide a lasting, beautiful plate at a minimum of expense.

Present chromium plating baths containing sulphuric acid as the active agent of deposition leave much to be desired …

Conductivity Applications, Henry W. Koch

Bachelors’ Theses

Since the introduction of Arrhenius’ theory of electrolytic dissociation more than forty years ago, many applications of the chemistry of electrolytes have been formulated. Of the many uses of conductance measurements, conductivity titrations have lately assumed the theoretical and technical importance which they rightfully should have. Conductance measurements enjoy prominence both in practice and in research, and the almost unlimited field provides a wealth of material for the ardent electrochemist. There is no doubt that many of the old analytic methods will soon be largely supplanted by this newer procedure which even at the present finds such varied usefulness.

The Preparation Of Calcium And Barium Gluconate, Ronald Anthony Plzak

Bachelors’ Theses

The privilege of working on this subject is one which the author has sincerely appreciated, as it has given him the opportunity of incorporating many of the more recent contributions along the line of oxidizing aldose sugars. In reviewing these contributions, he has abstained from conveying an impression of finality and has attempted to show the many possibilities which the free sugar acids offer for the future. The experience of the last few years has proved that even long-cherished conceptions and apparently well-established facts may at any time undergo drastic revision. For this reason, the author has referred directly to …

An Investigation Of The Methods Used In The Preparation Of Acid Amides, Everett Stats

Bachelors’ Theses

Much work has been done on the preparation of acid amides, but there are few sources where one may find the methods tabulated. It has been the purpose of this Thesis, therefore, to try out various methods and conditions for the preparation of the aliphatic and aromatic amides and to record them.

A Comparison Of The Caffeine Content Of Various Coffees, Emil J. Petrusek

Bachelors’ Theses

Coffee must be rated as one of the most important commodities in the commercial world due to the statistics or output and consumption. There are various brands and kinds of coffee produced by the different growers and roasters. Now to sell the brands, the various concerns base their advertising upon the flavor and price of the coffee. It is a fact that the flavor of coffee is in some way affected by the caffeine present. One popular brand is advertised as decaffeinated, that is, the caffeine has been removed. Confronted with these facts, it occurred to the author to test …

The Extraction Of Tantalum And Columbium From Tantalite, Stanley P. Wisniewski

Bachelors’ Theses

In the summer of 1932, the Milwaukee Public Museum, sent an expedition to the Bad Lands and Black Hills of South Dakota, under the direction of Dr. Ira Edwards, Curator of Geology in that institution. It was at this time that the author, a member of this group, while studying the pegmatites of the Black Hills, became interested in the tantalum-columbium bearing minerals of that region, namely tantalite and columbite. At that time the writer made a detailed mineralogical study of these two minerals, as well as a thorough investigation of their occurrence in that region. In the fall of …

Sensitivity Of Curcumin As An Organic Reagent In Testing For Beryllium, James W. Bookhamer

Bachelors’ Theses

For many years the analytical chemist avoided by design or more probably by accident the general use of organic chemicals in his work. Some few of them he accepted as a matter of course, and perhaps without much thought of their organic nature. In qualitative analysis he used chloroform as a solvent in testing for bromine and iodine. A few indicators were in common use, but organic chemicals were used but little in analytical work. It was not until the twentieth century that their use in analytical procedures received any worthwhile attention. Since then they have rapidly come to the …

The Purification Of Coffee Wax By Means Of A Special Extractor Followed By A Dialysis Process, John Dobrojevic

Bachelors’ Theses

This work was performed with the intention of devising a method where-by true wax could be isolated from a conglomerated mixture called coffee wax.

A Contribution To The Preparation Of Synthetic Rubber From Butyl Alcohol, Rosalia Aloisia Leutgoeb

Bachelors’ Theses

Rubber, on account of its almost universal usefulness is one of the important materials of modern time. The unequalled utility of it is found in its physical properties, such as elasticity and toughness, which are not possessed by other plastic substances.

Effect Of Varying Supports On Nickel As A Catalyst In The Hydrogenation Of Unrefined And Refined Soy Bean Oil, Nate W. Fredman

Bachelors’ Theses

Hydrogenation is a subject that has grown in im­portance only within the last thirty years. Before 1900, little was known about the process of adding hydrogen to a liquid oil to form a solid fat, the latter of which has a great deal more uses than the former. Much trouble was experienced, since conditions controlling the process must be very definite in order to obtain good results.

Chemists have found that the main requisite in the above process is the catalyst. It must be very carefully pre­pared and controlled. But instead of using only the catalyst, many modern research workers …

The Effect Of Halowax 1012, 1013 & 1014 On The Melting Points Of Various Waxes, Louis Henry Kroening

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis is concerned with the melting points of various waxes and the effect of Halowax 1012, 1013 and 1014 upon their physical constants. Interest in this problem was aroused "by the fact that Halowax as shown by Nathan Smith in his thesis, "The Effect of Halowax Upon Lubricating Oils and Greases”, decreases the viscosity of oils. Since lubricating oils contain waxes it is logical to expect that this decrease in viscosity is due to the lowering of the melting point of the waxes present. It was to investigate the truth of this assumption that this work was begun.

A Study Of Melting Points Of Various Ternary Mixtures Of Waxes, Leonard Anthony Veranth

Bachelors’ Theses

The work undertaken in this thesis is a continuation of the work done by George John Hable entitled, "A Study of Melting Points of Various Binary Mixtures of Waxes". In the present work, the melting points of ternary mixtures of waxes is studied. The experimental work is presented in the form of graphs so that the reader is afforded a better representation and clearer conception of the work done and the results obtained.

The Effect Of Ultra-Violet Light On Ethyl Acetate, Homer W. Wiesner

Bachelors’ Theses

The present work, is a study of the effect of ultraviolet light on pure organic compounds. In particular, it is a qualitative and quantitative study of_ the decomposition products of ethyl acetate as effected by ultraviolet radiations, together with the development of experimental apparatus. In as much as the work required special apparatus, much of the time was spent in the development and construction of such apparatus.

A Method Of Determining The Relative Thermal Conductivities Of Liquids, Lohr Arthur Burkardt

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis concerns the development of apparatus suitable for the practical determination of the thermal conductivity of liquids. The data presented in the literature refers to the deter­mination of absolute conductivity values and-is very unsatisfactory from a practical point of view. The aim here has not been to furnish abso­lute data, but to provide a simple means of determining the relative conductivity of any series of liquids. Knowing such a set of rela­tive conductivities, absolute values can readily be calculated therefrom.

The aim has been to develop an apparatus that is simple enough to be constructed in the ordinary laboratory, …

The Melting Points Of Bismuth - Zinc - Tin Alloys By The Cooling Curve Method, Siegfried Kulbacki

Bachelors’ Theses

Undoubtedly, the properties of a metal which contribute to its general usefulness consist of hardness, tenacity, elasticity, malleability, ductility, density, fusibility, expansion by heat, resistance to corrosion and conductivity for heat and electricity.

A Contribution To The Preparation Of Synthetic Rubber From Butadiene. Ii., Joseph Patrick Iding

Bachelors’ Theses

Since the World War, the production of synthetic rubber has become the problem not only of the laboratory, but of commerce as well. Several factors demanded this research.

In the first place, the World War made the dependence of countries on each other strikingly evident in several ways, one of which was the need for rubber by great nations whose situations prohibited the planting of the rubber tree and consequently put them under obligation to other countries for their supply.

And now in the last few years this demand for rubber has been increased enormously, through the increased production of …

A Study Of The Cooling Curve Of Several Waxes And Various Binary Mixtures Of These Waxes, Casimir A. Smyk

Bachelors’ Theses

A cooling curve may be defined as a graphic representation of the relationship which exists in the elapse of time and temperature of a substance surrounded by a medium of a temperature lower than itself. There is no heat added to the substance and the only heat taken away from the substance is by means of the surrounding medium. It is time plotted against temperature. Time on the x-axis and temperature on the y-axis. Many methods have been mentioned for the determination of purity and identification of a wax. But the methods are not standardized because of the length and …

The Effect Of Halowax On Lubricating Oil And Grease: The Instability Of Aluminum Grease In Regard To Viscosity, Nathan Smith

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis is concerned with lubricating oils and solid lubricants. The initial problem in this research was the effect of Halowax 1012, 1013, and 1014 on lubricating oil. During the investigation, however, it was observed that the addition of Halowax to the lubricating oils formed a false gel at ordinary temperature, the consistency depending on the percentage of Halowax added. The result no longer favored continued research since the lubricating oil was made impractical. The problem then lent itself to the influence of Halowax on solid lubricants, in particular lubricating greases. It was on this phase of the investigation that …

Wax Analysis With Special Reference To Montan, Spermaceti, And Chinese Insect Wax, Margaret M. Plonsker, Margaret E. Seippel

Bachelors’ Theses

The presentation of this thesis under joint authorship finds its justification in the fact that much of the experimental work, though performed individually, is of such a nature as to warrant a unified description. In this way the reader is afforded a better representation and clearer conception of the problem, and a substantial guide for further investigation. Though much work has been done in the field of wax analysis, little is known of the higher fatty acids and alcohols of many of the waxes. Their isolation has been infrequent, and few if any of their derivatives have been formed. It …

Tungsten Plating, Allen J. Hipp

Bachelors’ Theses

During the past twenty years electro-plating has undergone a thorough transformation from an art into a science in which physical chemistry is playing an important role. The factors which govern the plating of copper, nickel and brass are well known. Recently new processes have been found for the plating of cadmium and chromium. Metals which give a bright surface and which will take a polish are in great demand. Nickel and chromium answer these requirements, and are used commercially for a variety of uses. Chromium has been a remarkable success as a plated surface because it is both a beautiful, …

The Reaction Between Aluminum And A Germicidal Soap Contaiming Mercuric Iodide, Gordon C. Mueller

Bachelors’ Theses

The verification of previous research concerning the action of mercuric halides on aluminum, together with a study of the action of soaps containing these halides, is the purpose and privilege of this paper.

A Study Of The Deposition Of Wax In A Wax Emulsion By Electricity, Howard Mcdonald

Bachelors’ Theses

The basis of this thesis resides in an experiment performed by Dr. J.R. Koch of Marquette University during the summer of 1931. Dr. Koch poured some liquid emulsion into an "H" tube and attached the electrodes to a source of DC current. A few days later he noticed the wax bad separated from the emulsion and had passed to the positive electrode leaving the solution surrounding the negative electrode clear.

The Quantitative Estimation Of Solvents And Non-Solvents As Found In Lacquer Preparations, Harry Katzowsky

Bachelors’ Theses

The study of solvents and non-solvents in lacquers entails a great deal of work which is unable to be covered in so small a space of time, and although this thesis attempts to understand the use of these solvents and non-solvents, it is just a mere uncovering of much more interesting work able to be done with further analysis in this field.

A Study Of Methods For Determining The Solvents And Diluents Used In Lacquers, William O'Donnell

Bachelors’ Theses

The subject matter of this thesis deals with methods of analysis for lacquer solvents and diluents. Lacquers are a comparatively new product and a big field of investigation is open to anyone. This subject as taken bee use it offered a special appeal to be able to investigate something that was new and practical.

The Decomposition Of Mixed Ethers And A Quantitative Scheme For The Determination Of A Quaternary Mixture Of Alcohols And Iodides, Ellsworth H. Stock

Bachelors’ Theses

To introduce some recent advances covering the decomposition of mixed ethers and the quantitative scheme for quaternary mixtures of alcohols and iodides is the privilege and responsibility of this paper. The first part of the paper deals with the oxidation, and quantitative determination of binary mixtures of alcohols. The last half covers the separation of the alcohols from the iodides, the decomposition of the mixed ethers, and the complete outline for determining the amount of alcohols resulting from the decomposition. Tables, graphs, and drawings have been included in the text, because the complete understanding of the method depends to some …