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... nearly any proportion de- sired to colored pigments . But it is after all mainly as an 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 ...
... nearly any proportion de- sired to colored pigments . But it is after all mainly as an 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 ...
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Frederick Maire. goods that no one need buy adulterated goods without knowing very nearly just what he is paying for ; nor has one any need of a knowledge of chemistry in mak- ing the test . 6. This test is called the " Scale test . " To ...
Frederick Maire. goods that no one need buy adulterated goods without knowing very nearly just what he is paying for ; nor has one any need of a knowledge of chemistry in mak- ing the test . 6. This test is called the " Scale test . " To ...
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... nearly of the same strength of tone if both are equally pure , but that if one has been adulterated then it must lack in coloring matter to about the same quantity or percentage as had been added of adulteration to the pure color in the ...
... nearly of the same strength of tone if both are equally pure , but that if one has been adulterated then it must lack in coloring matter to about the same quantity or percentage as had been added of adulteration to the pure color in the ...
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... nearly every one who has given the subject a thought , one would suppose some uniform explanation would be given of it , yet upon the very plainest action of moisture many intelligent men differ materially in explaining its action upon ...
... nearly every one who has given the subject a thought , one would suppose some uniform explanation would be given of it , yet upon the very plainest action of moisture many intelligent men differ materially in explaining its action upon ...
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... nearly all day shows the most blisters , the west next and the east its weakest as it receives early morning rays and the intense ones only for a short time about 10 to 12 noon exhibits the smallest number of blisters The above applies ...
... nearly all day shows the most blisters , the west next and the east its weakest as it receives early morning rays and the intense ones only for a short time about 10 to 12 noon exhibits the smallest number of blisters The above applies ...
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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...