The People's Vade-mecum: Comprising a Collection of Valuable Recipes ... with a Few Simple and Curious Experiments in Chemistry ...Jewett, Thomas & Company, 1850 - 46 pages |
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Page 41 - That if any person shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any stamp...
Page 12 - ... with eight times its weight of water. The cloth must be boiled for an hour in a solution, containing five parts of alum, and three of tartar, for every 32 parts of cloth. It is then to be thrown into a...
Page 11 - Mordants not only render the dye permanent, but have also considerable influence on the colour produced. The same colouring matter produces very different dyes, according as the mordant is changed. Suppose, for instance, that the colouring matter...
Page 37 - Weigh ten eggs, take their weight in very fine sugar, and the weight of six in flour, beat the yolks with the flour, and the whites alone, to a...
Page 11 - ... iron produces with it a black. In dyeing, then, it is not only necessary to procure a mordant which has a sufficiently strong affinity for the colouring matter and the cloth, and a colouring matter which possesses the wished-for...
Page 7 - Take a piece of quick-lime, about half the size of your fist, and wrap around it a wet cloth, sufficiently wrung to prevent water running from. it. A dry cloth is to be several times wrapped around this. Place one of these packets on each side of the patient when in bed. An abundant humid...
Page 25 - Take one bushel of unslaked lime and slack it with cold water; when slacked, add to it twenty pounds of Spanish whiting, seventeen pounds of salt, and twelve pounds of sugar. Strain this mixture through a wire sieve, and it will be fit for use after reducing with cold water. This is intended for the outside of buildings, or where it is exposed to the weather. In order to give a good colour, three coats are necessary on brick, and two on wood.
Page 11 - Manufacturers sometimes employ this method of increasing the weight of silk. Tan is often employed also, along with other mordants, in order to produce a compound mordant. Oil is also used for the same purpose, in the dyeing of cotton and linen. The mordants with which Tan is most frequently combined, are Alumine, and Oxide of Iron. Besides these mordants, there...
Page 37 - French roll, and over that whip your froth which you saved off the cream very well milled up, and lay at top as high as you can heap it; and as for the rim of the dish, set it round with fruit or sweetmeats, according to your fancy.
Page 11 - Iron (copperas), and Acetite of Iron. The first is commonly used for wool. The salt is dissolved in water, and the cloth dipped in it. It may be used also for cotton, but in most cases Acetite of Iron is preferred. It is prepared by dissolving Iron, or its Oxide, in vinegar, sour beer, or Pyroligneous Acid, and the longer it is |.kept, the more it is preferred. The reason is, that this mordant succeeds best, when the Iron is in the state of red Oxide.