The usual chemical method of obtaining vitamins from fish oil is to remove the oil and leave the vitamin—like obtaining a carburetor by removing the rest of an automobile of which it is part.

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THREE vacuum distillation apparatuses capable of distilling amounts from 5 gm. to 500 gm. have been constructed for preparative and analytical work particularly in regard to fatty acid esters. They ...

Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. (NRL) has let a contract to thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions (India) Private Ltd. (tkIS India) to provide a series of engineering, procurement, construction, and ...

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