COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES OF BUTTERMILK 



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Table 89: Composition of Ash in Separator Skim Milk. 5 



Potassium oxide 31.634 per cent 



Sodium oxide 10.265 " " 



Calcium oxide 21.913 



Magnesium oxide 3.115 



Iron oxide (ferric) 921 " 



Phosphoric acid (anhydride) 19.478 " 



Sulphuric acid (anhydride) 1.000 " " 



Chlorine 15.071 



103.397 " " 

 Less oxygen equivalent to chlorine 3.397 



100.000 " " 

 Table 90. Composition of Buttermilk. 



Specific gravity of sweet-cream buttermilk 1.033 1 6 . 

 Specific gravity of sour-cream buttermilk 1.0314 6 . 



Table 91. Composition of Ash in Buttermilk. 5 



Potassium oxide 24.53 



Sodium oxide 1 1.54 



Calcium oxide 19.73 



Magnesium oxide 3.56 



Iron oxide (Ferric) and Sulphuric acid 47 



Phosphoric acid (anhydride) 29.89 



Chlorine . . 13.27 



per cent 



Less oxygen equivalent to chlorine 



102.99 

 2.99 



100.00 



1 Van Slyke Modern Methods of Test Milk and Its Products. 



2 Storch Richmond's Dairy Chemistry. 



3 Snyder Dairy Chemistry. 



4 Vieth Richmond's Dairy Chemistry. 



6 Flelschmann T.ehrbuch der Milchwirtschaft, 1901. 

 6 Richmond Dairy Chemistry, 1914. 



