Re: sugar

Thank you Sandy,

As I understand you use 3g of sugar per 100 ml of 10% liquid gelatin
solution or 3g sugar per 10g gelatin.

Kemal

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Sandy King wrote:
>
> Sorry,
>
> What I should have said was, "Thus, in noting that I use about 3%
> sugar I mean that I use 3g of sugar per 100ml of liquid gelatin
> solution."
>
> Sandy King
>
> >Your point is well taken. I can certainly understand how the
> >previous messages could be confusing.
> >
> >For the record, however, I relate the percentage or quantity of any
> >specific ingredient to the amount of pigmented gelatin liquid
> >solution. Thus, in noting that I use about 1-3% sugar I mean that I
> >use about 2.3g of sugar per 100ml of liquid gelatin solution. This
> >is consistent with the way I discuss the concentration of the
> >gelatin in the solution - for example, a 10% pigmented gelatin
> >solution consists of 10g of gelatin in 100ml of water.
> >
> >
> >Sandy King
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Sandy and all,
> >>
> >>Please be more careful when writing about the percentages:
> >>
> >>2.5% sugar in 1000 ml of any gelatin solution is 0.025*1000 = 25 g.
> >>
> >>When coating with 10% gelatin solution our dry tissue should contain
> >>100% gelatin and 25/100 = 25% sugar, but with 20% gelatin solution
> >>our dry tissue should contain 25/200 = 12.5% sugar.
> >>
> >>So, I think sugar, glycerin, pigment and all other ingredients should
> >>be related to the dry gelatin or, why not, write a complete formula.
> >>
> >>Kemal
> >>
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> >>
> >>Sandy King wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I use only about 2-3% sugar, with about the same amount of glycerine.
> >>> That is, about 20-30g of sugar with 25g of glycerine. This tissue has
> >>> good mechanical properties in my working conditions.
> >>>
Received on Wed Dec 26 06:39:04 2001