A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 405
nd. It is a white substance, commonly met with in irreg-ular prismatic masses, which shape it assumes whiledrying. It is almost insoluble in cold water, and en-tirely so in alcohol and ether. It consists of granulesof different sizes, as in Fig. 299, those of the potato be-ing about the two hundred… … 392 STARCH. Fig. 299. When starch is heated in wa- ter, the covering membrane ofeach granule bursts open, andthe interior matter dissolves out.If the proportion of starch beconsiderable, the whole forms ajelly-like mass, which may bedried into a yellowish body hav-ing the same constitution asstarch…
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