"The juice which is expressed from sugar-canes is boiled in vacuum-pans until it becomes thick, and is then allowed to cool, when crystals of sugar separate from it; the thick, dark-coloured, liquid which refuses to crystallise is drawn off and sold as molasses. This separation of the juice of the cane into two different substances is effected by making use of a property of sugar, namely its readiness to crystallise, and a property of molasses, namely, its inability to crystallise. These properties belong to the two substances whether they are or are not mixed."
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The Elements of Chemistry (Muir)
The Elements of Chemistry was written by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir and published in 1904. Muir was a Praelector and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and head of their Caius Laboratory.
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