[crz]

Here rimorel.

Its better for you to see this than I could explain it to you by myself. It’d take me a year the way I explain things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_liquor

[rlmorel]

That was great, thank you. I have a degree in Chemistry, but when I thought about it, I realized I knew less than squat about the subject. The link explained it perfectly.

Now I am no longer a complete ignoramus about something like pulp processing!

It is what I love about the Internet, and is what Vannevar Bush had in mind back in 1945 when he published his famous "As We May Think" essay which foresaw the Internet.

I am currently trying to learn celestial navigation via YouTube, which has always fascinated me. I doubt I'll ever have to use it, but being an amateur naval historian, it is one more thing I will at least have a clue about. I just finished listening to Shackelton's "South", and boy, when you understand a little bit about celestial navigation, you realize just how absolutely astonishing that is!

Five men, Arctic Winter, 22 foot lifeboat with partial canvas covering, 800 miles, three celestial fixes in seventeen days, and they hit a speck of an island they were aiming for.

But anyway, that is why I love the Internet. Next time someone mentions "black liquor" in pulp processing, I will have a conversational clue...:) Hooray for the Internet!