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... adulterant must be as clear or colorless as possible , so as not to change materially the color or tone of the pigments they are added to . If much lighter in weight the usual size package used to pack the pure color would have to be ...
... adulterant must be as clear or colorless as possible , so as not to change materially the color or tone of the pigments they are added to . If much lighter in weight the usual size package used to pack the pure color would have to be ...
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... adulterant of white lead and zinc white , that it shows up to the best advantage - as an adulterant . It is the nearest substance in weight to white lead , being very heavy , and known as heavy spar in lead mines where it is frequently ...
... adulterant of white lead and zinc white , that it shows up to the best advantage - as an adulterant . It is the nearest substance in weight to white lead , being very heavy , and known as heavy spar in lead mines where it is frequently ...
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... with white lead will be much weakened as stated before . Now to determine in a sufficiently ac- curate manner what the proportion of adulterant has been added to it - all that will be necessary 12 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
... with white lead will be much weakened as stated before . Now to determine in a sufficiently ac- curate manner what the proportion of adulterant has been added to it - all that will be necessary 12 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
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... adulterant which has lessened the proportion of color- ing matter to the same proportion that the adulterant contained in it bears to the pure . This test is especially valuable for all chemically made colors having well known formulas ...
... adulterant which has lessened the proportion of color- ing matter to the same proportion that the adulterant contained in it bears to the pure . This test is especially valuable for all chemically made colors having well known formulas ...
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... adulterant ; or I part lead , 2 parts adulteration . While the above tests are all approximative , they are practical and easily made , being within the possibil- ity of everyone , requiring no knowledge of chemistry and Modern ...
... adulterant ; or I part lead , 2 parts adulteration . While the above tests are all approximative , they are practical and easily made , being within the possibil- ity of everyone , requiring no knowledge of chemistry and Modern ...
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adulterant applied artists barytes better blistering bronze brown burnt sienna burnt umber calcimine camel's hair carriage ceiling chrome green clean dark decoration distemper edge finishing fixed oils flat fresco gilding Girth give glass glazing glue gold leaf grainer Gray ground coat imitated inch Indian red iron ivory black japan kinds ladders lampblack lead for base light linseed oil look madder lake marble material medium chrome yellow metal mixed moisture nearly needed oil paint orange chrome yellow painter paragraph pigments plaster prepared priming produce proper Prussian blue putty quantity raw and burnt raw sienna raw umber rubbing second coat shades sign painting sizes sponge stains stencil stippling suit surface thinned tint-how tints tion tone transparent trifle turpentine ultramarine blue usually varnish brushes veining Venetian red wall paper water colors white lead wood zinc white
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Page 393 - It certainly is not in good taste to stain woods in colors which do not belong to them, as blues, greens, etc., and while this is a free country, etc., as long as a person is not sent to the penitentiary for committing outrages against nature, nor to insane asylums, it is very probable that the practice will go on undisturbed. But it is vulgarity, to say the least of the practice, and painters should not encourage it.
Page 63 - With all the cheap John sort of plastering that is being done by contractors at a price which would mean a sure loss to them if they used good material, but which must be done so as to make a profit anyhow, many of the surfaces the calciminer has to 'deal with will be found very porous and absorbing...
Page 448 - ... surface. The crepe paper, cheese cloth and burlap also produce fine, simple patterns but slightly different from each other. The heavy muslin when crumpled up into a wad gives an especially pleasing pattern resembling the figure of Spanish leather when done in the burnt umber or Van Dyke brown ovef a ground coat of ivory.
Page 63 - An ideal wall to work upon is one that will be sufficiently hard to have but little suction, nearly but not quite non-absorbent. The patent plastered walls left either in a...