Crossword-Solution: LATICES 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Hic vir ad Eleos, pedibus talaria gestans, Fervidus it latices, nec quidquam acquirit eundo: {146a} Ille petit virides (sed non e gramine) mensas, Pollicitus meliora patri, tormentaque {146b} flexus Per labyrintheos plus quam mortalia tentat, Acre tuens, loculisque pilas immittit et aufert.

The dry rubber content of latices from the same trees is found to be so comparatively regular, allowing for climatic changes, that it is sufficient for the purposes of selection to measure the volumes of latex yielded by individual trees.

Latices of these strengths can be coagulated at a ratio of 1 part pure acid to 1,200 parts of standardised latex; and this quantity need not be exceeded, except in cases where an appreciable amount of some anti-coagulant is present in the latex.

Hence it follows that if in any factory uniform quantities of the solution are used for any given volume of undiluted latices from different areas of the estate, the effect upon the dry rubbers will vary.

The remedy obviously is to reduce the variation in latices by diluting them all to a standard rubber content as is done in sheet preparation.