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... quantity of each ingredient entering into the compound . As most of the readers of this book are not chemists and as the cost of an anal- ysis properly made will usually cost far in excess of the value of the material under examination ...
... quantity of each ingredient entering into the compound . As most of the readers of this book are not chemists and as the cost of an anal- ysis properly made will usually cost far in excess of the value of the material under examination ...
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... quantity or percentage as had been added of adulteration to the pure color in the first place . Thus if one grain or gramme of say - chrome yellow , is carefully placed upon a small square of waxed paper ( about 3/4 inch square ) and ...
... quantity or percentage as had been added of adulteration to the pure color in the first place . Thus if one grain or gramme of say - chrome yellow , is carefully placed upon a small square of waxed paper ( about 3/4 inch square ) and ...
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... quantity as 10 % of barytes zinc clay or silicate earth , it will not reduce to the metallic state and as no one would undertake to adulterate lead with as small a quantity of barytes as that for it would not pay , it will be easily ...
... quantity as 10 % of barytes zinc clay or silicate earth , it will not reduce to the metallic state and as no one would undertake to adulterate lead with as small a quantity of barytes as that for it would not pay , it will be easily ...
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... quantity required for the consumption of the whole world . The semi - tamed Russian hog produces , fortunately , bristles that are little inferior to that of the wild hog . Those borne upon the crest of the neck of the animal being the ...
... quantity required for the consumption of the whole world . The semi - tamed Russian hog produces , fortunately , bristles that are little inferior to that of the wild hog . Those borne upon the crest of the neck of the animal being the ...
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... quantities . It is made up in same sizes and shape as shown in Fig . 31 , which see . CAMEL'S HAIR BRUSHES . 30. a . Camel's hair varnish brushes are used for many purposes and by nearly all branches of the paint- er's trade . They are ...
... quantities . It is made up in same sizes and shape as shown in Fig . 31 , which see . CAMEL'S HAIR BRUSHES . 30. a . Camel's hair varnish brushes are used for many purposes and by nearly all branches of the paint- er's trade . They are ...
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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...