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... 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 found . This ...
... 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 found . This ...
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... white lead both also of an equal weight it follows that when the two colors have been mixed each one separately with the lead - that the tint made will be very nearly of the same strength of tone if both are equally pure , but that if ...
... white lead both also of an equal weight it follows that when the two colors have been mixed each one separately with the lead - that the tint made will be very nearly of the same strength of tone if both are equally pure , but that if ...
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... white lead to the tint made by the stronger color until it is reduced to the strength of the tint made by the weaker color . The tint made by the addition of more white lead should be reweighed . Thus if one grain of color and 50 grains of ...
... white lead to the tint made by the stronger color until it is reduced to the strength of the tint made by the weaker color . The tint made by the addition of more white lead should be reweighed . Thus if one grain of color and 50 grains of ...
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... lead will appear upon it . It may possibly take a couple of matches to make the test satisfactory , if one has been ... white salts used as paint which are derived from lead . Sublimed lead , for in- stance , will not be reduced by it ...
... lead will appear upon it . It may possibly take a couple of matches to make the test satisfactory , if one has been ... white salts used as paint which are derived from lead . Sublimed lead , for in- stance , will not be reduced by it ...
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... white lead . To make the test - only the one color must be used taken from the same can . Weigh one grain of color , which place on glass - repeat this and place the color upon another glass ; then weigh 50 grains of lead which place ...
... white lead . To make the test - only the one color must be used taken from the same can . Weigh one grain of color , which place on glass - repeat this and place the color upon another glass ; then weigh 50 grains of lead which place ...
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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...