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Some commonly prepared foods
include some interesting ingredients, whose source we may be unaware of.
Are you a candy freak?
Do you eat jelly beans or M &
M-like candy?
Do you chew gum?
All have major ingredients
that, if they were served individually, you probably wouldn't want to eat.
Jelly beans, malted-milk balls
and the M & M kinds of candy have a harder surface over a soft interior.
They have sugar, flavorings
and a few other ingredients in the surface coating. But the include one other
major constituent: "food-grade shellac"! Shellac, as can be learned from page
749 of the Handbook of Manufacturing Processes, is made from a secretion from a
particular tropical beetle, dissolved in alcohol.
So, when you are eating jelly
beans, you are eating a bug's secretion!
The material, though, has
proven to be quite safe for human consumption.
Then there's the synthetic or
natural rubber in chewing gum (page 653).
Some candies include mineral
oil, a by-product in the refining of crude oil to make gasoline. Others and some
fruits and vegetables have wax coatings for appearance and protection.
The waxes used include
carnauba wax, the same wax you use when you polish your car.
That wax is natural, its
source being the leaves of a Brazilian palm tree, but other waxes used include
paraffin, another by-product of petroleum refining.
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Handbook of Manufacturing Processes |
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by James Bralla
804pp ISBN: 9780831131791 |
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Handbook of
Manufacturing
Processes
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Unlike any other reference, Handbook of
Manufacturing Processes is an in-depth compilation of the workings of more than
1500 different manufacturing processes in metalworking, chemicals, textiles,
plastics, ceramics, electronics, wood and food industries; as well as how more
than 600 important products, components, materials are made.
Logically organized in two sections a process
section and a products section it describes clearly and succinctly the
operations performed in the worlds factories.
Heavily illustrated, it is a comprehensive source
of technical manufacturing information that manufacturing engineers and
managers, process engineers, and anyone who has an interest in or needs to know
about manufacturing operations and products will not easily find anywhere else.
Features
- Features practical, understandable
explanations; even for complex processes.
- Includes clear descriptions of how each of
1500 current and recently developed manufacturing processes work, what they do
to the material or workpiece that is worked on, what the results are, and
where these processes are used and why.
- Explains how 600 products, components or
materials are made; including nylon, gasoline, decaffeinated coffee,
semiconductors, stainless steel, lasers, and many more.
- Codes text entries in a format that utilizes
outline designations carried through to the accompanying illustrations for
easy reference.
- Groups related processes together and covers
sequential operation in order.
- Includes little or no mathematics.
Table of Contents
Section I: Manufacturing Processes
- Casting Processes
- Metal Forming Processes
- Machining Processes
- Processes for Plastics
- Glass and Ceramic Processes
- Woodworking Processes
- Assembly and Fusion (or Joining) Processes
- Finishing Processes (including Heat Treating)
- Paper, Fiber, and Printing Processes
- Textile Processes
- Chemical Processes
- Food Processes
- Processes for Electronic Products
- Advanced Manufacturing Methods
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