“…A summation of such tests has been compiled by Heermann [42] and by Tatu [104]. If we omit such tests as solubility in calcium thiocyanate [68], heats of combustion [ 11 ] , refractivity [64], electrokinetic properties [65,91], Nessler's reagent [24,26,38], specialized dying tests [29,32,39,40,62,75,82,99] , ferricyanide test [28], or microscopic examination [33,41,94] which are of recent introduction (and hence incompletely evaluated or designed for special industrial control) it is evident that the bulk of the alleged &dquo;knowledge&dquo; of the structure of oxidized celluloses rests on the results of methylene-blue absorption, cuprammonium hydroxide viscosity (fluidity), and copper number determinations. The interpretation of these tests was evolved from an examination of oxidized celluloses of variable and unknown chemical structures; then the results of such tests were applied to determining the structure of oxidized celluloses !…”