Science for Students of Leather Technology: The Commonwealth and International Library: Technology Division a Modern Course in Leather Technology

Front Cover......Page 1
Science for Students of Leather Technology......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 10
CHAPTER 1. Introduction......Page 12
 ATOMS......Page 16
 BONDS BETWEEN ATOMS......Page 17
 CO-ORDINATION COMPOUNDS......Page 20
 BONDS BETWEEN MOLECULES......Page 21
 WATER......Page 23
 AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS......Page 24
 ACIDS AND BASES......Page 28
 BUFFERS......Page 44
 INDICATORS......Page 47
 DIFFUSION......Page 50
 SWELLING......Page 52
 INTRODUCTION......Page 60
 TYPES OF MACROMOLECULES......Page 61
 PROTEINS......Page 83
 POLYSACCHARIDES OR CARBOHYDRATES......Page 95
 SIMPLE LIPIDS......Page 119
 THE FATTY ACIDS......Page 120
 THE DEGREE OF UNSATURATION......Page 122
 LIPIDS AND THEIR PROPERTIES......Page 123
 HYDROLYSIS (SAPONIFICATION)......Page 124
 THE REACTION OF OILS WITH SULPHURIC ACID......Page 125
 THE REACTION OF OILS WITH SALTS OF SULPHUROUS ACID......Page 126
 OXIDATION AND POLYMERIZATION REACTIONS OF UNSATURATED LIPIDS......Page 127
 SURFACE AND INTERFACIAL TENSIONS......Page 131
 ADHESION AND COHESION......Page 133
 SOLUTIONS......Page 136
 SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS......Page 137
 EMULSIONS......Page 141
CHAPTER 6. Skin Structure and the Chemistry of Collagen......Page 145
 THE HISTOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF MAMMALIAN SKIN......Page 146
 THE EPIDERMIS......Page 148
 THE DERMIS......Page 154
 THE CHEMISTRY OF COLLAGEN......Page 163
 INSECTS IN RELATION TO LEATHER PRODUCTION......Page 171
 MICRO-ORGANISMS AND LEATHER PRODUCTION......Page 180
CHAPTER 8. The Chemistry of Mineral Tannage......Page 198
 MASKING AND MASKED SOLUTIONS......Page 205
 SUBSTITUTED MONOCARBOXYLIC ACIDS......Page 208
 TANNAGE AS COMPLEX FORMATION INVOLVING MASKING......Page 209
 THE COMPOSITION OF CHROME-TANNING MATERIALS......Page 210
 PARTICLE SIZE DETERMINATION......Page 213
 USE OF ION-EXCHANGE RESINS......Page 215
 CONDUCTIVITY STUDIES......Page 216
 STUDIES OF COMPLEXES BASED ON pH DETERMINATION......Page 217
 SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHODS......Page 219
 REACTION BETWEEN CHROMIUM COMPLEXES AND CHEMICALLY MODIFIED COLLAGEN......Page 221
 THE KINETICS OF CHROME COMPLEX FORMATION AND CHROME TANNING......Page 223
 TWO-BATH CHROME TANNING......Page 224
 VEGETABLE TANNINS......Page 229
 SYNTANS......Page 242
 INTRODUCTORY THEORY OF TANNAGE WITH VEGETABLE AND SYNTHETIC TANNINS......Page 248
 DYESTUFFS......Page 251
 PIGMENTS......Page 277
Index......Page 282