| 单词 | to kill the goods |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto kill the goods h. to kill the goods: in soap-making, to emulsify the melted fat by a partial saponification. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > soap-making > make soap [verb (intransitive)] > specific processes to kill the goods1885 1885 W. L. Carpenter Treat. Manuf. Soap 167 The boiling, and the addition of fat and lye, must be continued until a small sample..has a tolerably firm consistence... Practice alone will enable the operator to judge of the completion of this first operation, called ‘pasting’. In English phraseology, it is called ‘killing the goods’ or raw material. 1888 J. Cameron Soaps & Candles 82 Saponification, pasting, or killing the goods. 1894 C. R. A. Wright Animal & Veg. Fixed Oils 468 The effect of the action of the hot ley on the melted fatty matter is to ‘kill the goods’—i.e., to emulsify the whole, so that no distinct layer of melted fat swims up on taking a sample. < as lemmas |
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