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  • MaryW commented on the word filter cake

    The solid wsste produced at the newly opened factory was generally undiluted by water or any other benign material and was thus very hazardous, despite the affectionate terminology used to describe it. For example, "filter cake" was grainy material, soaked with solvents, captured by the filters used in various steps of the dye-making process. "Still Bottoms" were gummy layers of solids that formed at the bottom of kettles and other reaction vessels at high temperatures. "Clarification residues" (apparently named by someone with less imagination) were chunks of unreacted chemicals floating in the liquid dye.
    Dan Fagin, Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation (New York: Bantam Books, 2014), p. 32

    February 7, 2016