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Quote: Fleastiff

Because gravity squeezes out some very pricey substances

If alcohol aging is production time, so is this description as a process is happening.

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

PART 146—CANNED FRUIT JUICES

146.146 Frozen concentrated orange juice

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=d31fde2e12930abff30a5140e6d02b00&mc=true&node=pt21.2.146&rgn=div5#se21.2.146_1146

Only a rather insignificant portion of orange juice is sold as canned orange juice. Most is sold as reconstituted or as fresh oj.

The subsection is about frozen concentrates, which is what I thought you were talking about.

Anyone remember the smell of this machine/paper from back in the day? I seem to recall that our school used them into the early 80's, but I may be wrong.

They definitely had a distinctive fragrance, and I'll sometime get a new book these days (usually hardback) that has a similar scent.

Quote: blount2000

Anyone remember the smell of this machine/paper from back in the day? I seem to recall that our school used them into the early 80's, but I may be wrong.

They definitely had a distinctive fragrance, and I'll sometime get a new book these days (usually hardback) that has a similar scent.

Catholic grade school was using one when I left in 1984. High School in mid-80s used them but was switching to photocopies. If you watch "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" the students all huff the paper with the smell. I once had a sub teacher was huffing the assignments!

The smell I believe is the solvent that suspended the ink evaporating. Probably some kind of alcohol.

Quote: blount2000

Anyone remember the smell of this machine/paper from back in the day? I seem to recall that our school used them into the early 80's, but I may be wrong.

They definitely had a distinctive fragrance, and I'll sometime get a new book these days (usually hardback) that has a similar scent.

Here's a nice page about mimeograph history. It gives the composition of the fluid as "10% of monofluoro tri-chloro methane and 90% of a mixture of 50% methyl alcohol, 40% ethyl alcohol, 5% water and 5% of ethylene glycol mono-ethyl ether."

The CFCl₃, also know as Freon-11, has a nice sweet smell.

Quote: AZDuffman

I once had a sub teacher was huffing the assignments!

The smell I believe is the solvent that suspended the ink evaporating. Probably some kind of alcohol.

Quote: ChesterDog

It gives the composition of the fluid as "10% of monofluoro tri-chloro methane and 90% of a mixture of 50% methyl alcohol, 40% ethyl alcohol, 5% water and 5% of ethylene glycol mono-ethyl ether."

The CFCl₃, also know as Freon-11, has a nice sweet smell.

Yeah, the smell was not unpleasant at all (to me anyway). It smelled kind of "chemically", but not in a bad or overpowering way.

Good times!

Seems to me smells and tastes from long ago are easy to remember. Like rubber cement on a bicycle tire. Or airplane glue. I can still remember the taste and consistency of Milk Bone dog biscuit I took a bite of when I was about 6 maybe. The smell of fireflies in a glass jar. (nasty).

Quote: rxwine

Seems to me smells and tastes from long ago are easy to remember.

They say smells imprint on the brain
far more strongly than the other
senses. It's a survival thing, a bad
smell could warn you of danger.

Certain smells can immediately take
you back to childhood. Or teen
years. I found a bottle of Brut in
the basement and took a whiff. I
was right back in 1966, it was
great and awful. Memories came
flooding in just from that smell.

They still make Brut, but it doesn't
smell quite the same because the
chemicals they used 50 years ago,
many are outlawed now. I have an
old 60's bottle, it's overpowering.