13—DESTABILIZATION IN CONCENTRATED WOOL-SCOURING LIQUORS

Abstract
When concentrated wool-scouring liquors become destabilized, more suspended particles are recovered in the cream or sludge (or both) than from conventional scouring liquors. The results reported here indicate that coagulation by indifferent electrolytes, such as sodium sulphate, is the most important destabilizing mechanism, but density is important in determining whether the particles sink of float.