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î view of modern carbon black plant com· m buildings covering an area of 160 acres on tear Sunray, Texas. ilack is produced by burning natural gas in of air. Here the operator reads the meter gas flow. η adjusts the regulator to assure a correct meter chart. On the precision with which epends the uniformity of the finished black. .he burner houses night and day 1,185,840 are playing on moving steel channels and ι of black, which is removed by station: is then subjected t o an agitating process rs, which remove the air from t h e black r so that it can be packed with^complete i weight. 4ΓΘ made to facilitate the product's lant. Here the technician is testing Dntent of carbon black. ΙΘ burner houses rise spectacular which signify the growth of an ixni© desolate Texas prairie.
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