Analyses of rosin size precipitates prepared at 25°and 60°C. showed a small difference in composition, explainable in terms of contamination of the precipitate made at the higher temperature with inorganic substances present at the time of its formation.Analyses of rosin size pre-cipitates prepared at 25°C. and of the same precipitates after aging for two and a half years at room temperature showed that the composition had changed in the following manner:an increase of 8 to 9% in oxygen, a decrease of 1 to 2% in carbon, and a decrease of 0.5% in hydrogen.
ROSINsize does not impart water resistance to paper if the treatment is carried out under conditions which subject the wet size precipitate to heat over an appreciable time (3, 10).However, except for a statement by Neugebauer (/) that temperature has no effect on the size precipitate' ash, there is no information concerning the effect of heat on size precipitate composition.