Yah, good prices.
On Oct 2, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Loris Medici wrote:
There are acacia trees here but I don't think they're the same species
which they gather gum arabic.
My comment "can buy locally" means exactly what you read. It doesn't
(shouldn't) imply that it is harvested locally. I can buy a kg (= will
make 2500ml working solution) of high quality (= food grade, very
little
or no alien content) powdered gum arabic for $12 here in Istanbul.
(About
half of this for a kg of ammonium or potassium dichromate) I guess
these
are good prices, right?
Regards,
Loris.
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Loris, forgive my ignorance, but are there acacia trees growing
there, so gum arabic is a local product?