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... side , so as to permit of an easy inspection of each sample when placed side and side together ; then afterward doing the same with the other color in each case in like manner , that if there be no adulteration that there will be but ...
... side , so as to permit of an easy inspection of each sample when placed side and side together ; then afterward doing the same with the other color in each case in like manner , that if there be no adulteration that there will be but ...
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... side of the test ; if one grain of Venetian red has been able to color 50 grains of lead known to be pure then it will be safe to infer that the first contains 33 1 / 3 % of white lead and 66 2/3 barytes or other adulterant ; or I part ...
... side of the test ; if one grain of Venetian red has been able to color 50 grains of lead known to be pure then it will be safe to infer that the first contains 33 1 / 3 % of white lead and 66 2/3 barytes or other adulterant ; or I part ...
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... side of buildings . II . But it cannot really produce a blistering of paint without the concurring assistance of heat . 12. With the numberless essays which have been written and the endless discussions which have taken place at ...
... side of buildings . II . But it cannot really produce a blistering of paint without the concurring assistance of heat . 12. With the numberless essays which have been written and the endless discussions which have taken place at ...
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... sides . d . This skin may or may not break out so as to let the steam escape into the atmosphere . When it does not do ... side of build- ings , the west and the east but mostly on the south , then next in number on the west and least on ...
... sides . d . This skin may or may not break out so as to let the steam escape into the atmosphere . When it does not do ... side of build- ings , the west and the east but mostly on the south , then next in number on the west and least on ...
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... sides oil coats have usually the very bad habit of sweat- ing through the varnish coats and stickiness would en- sue , which would catch all the dust and dirt it could carry and hold it there . So that what was once a thing of beauty ...
... sides oil coats have usually the very bad habit of sweat- ing through the varnish coats and stickiness would en- sue , which would catch all the dust and dirt it could carry and hold it there . So that what was once a thing of beauty ...
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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...