The Scientific American Cyclopedia of Formulas: Partly Based Upon the Twenty-eighth Edition of Scientific American Cyclopedia of Receipts, Notes and Queries : 15,000 Formulas

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Albert Allis Hopkins
Munn, 1921 - 1077 páginas

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Página 150 - One inch from its edges a single marginal line is to be drawn, leaving the "sight" precisely 8 by 13 inches. Within this margin all work and signatures must be included. One of the shorter sides of the sheet is regarded as its top, and measuring...
Página 330 - Pulverize the gum arable, and dissolve it in as much water as the laundress would use for the quantity of starch indicated. Dissolve the starch and sugar in the gum solution. Then cook the mixture in a vessel suspended in boiling water until the starch becomes clear. The cement should be as thick as tar, and kept so. It can be kept from spoilling by dropping in a lump of gum camphor, or a.
Página 526 - Heavy woolen clothing, silks, furs, stuffed bed-covers, beds, and other articles which cannot be treated with the zinc solution should be hung in the room during fumigation, their surfaces thoroughly exposed, and pockets turned inside out.
Página 525 - Disinfectants. (1.) In the Sick-room. The most available agents are fresh air and cleanliness. The clothing, towels, bed-linen, etc., should, on removal from the patient, and before they are taken from the room, be placed in a pail or tub of the zinc solution, boiling hot if possible.
Página 525 - Disinfection is the destruction of the poisons of infectious and contagious diseases. Deodorizers, or substances which destroy smells, are not necessarily disinfectants, and disinfectants do not necessarily have an odor.
Página 525 - It is extremely important that the people should be instructed with regard to disinfection. They must be taught that no reliance can be placed on disinfectants simply because they smell of chlorine or carbolic acid, or possess the color of permanganate; and that, in general, proprietary disinfectants with high-sounding names are practically worthless...
Página 504 - ... of wine) are dropped into it at different places ; or the diluted oil of cloves may be mixed with the solution before it is poured upon the glass ; the more oil of cloves used, the more rapid will be the deposition of the silver; but the patentee prefers that it should occupy about two hours.
Página 525 - Heavy clothing, blankets, bedding, and other articles which cannot be treated with the zinc solution, should be opened and exposed during fumigation, as directed below. Close the rooms -as tightly as possible, place the sulphur in iron pans supported upon bricks placed in washtubs containing a little water, set it on...
Página 288 - Dissolve five or six bits of gum mastic, each the size of a large pea, in as much spirits of wine as will suffice to render it liquid...
Página 288 - ... or ammoniacum, which must be rubbed or ground till they are dissolved. Then mix the whole with a sufficient heat. Keep the glue in a phial closely stopped, and when it is to be used set the phial in boiling water.

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