BRIGHT PEAT MOSS PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME

摘要

AbstractPeat moss having increased wettability and increasedbrightness while maintaining its absorbency andstructural integrity is provided. The peat moss istreated so as to chemically graft onto its structure,unhydrolized polymeric chains of the general formula:wherein R1 and R2 are selected from the group consistingof hydrogen and -CH3, X and Y are selected from the groupconsisting of -CN, -COONH2 and -OCH3 and wherein m and nare integers which when summed together equal at least500.