10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLCOTHAR»
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The Mechanic; Or, Compendium of Practical Inventions: ...
The powder I prefer above all others, to give a most exquisite lustre, is colcothar
of vitriol,"" and not putty. Putty gives metals a white lustre, or, as workmen call it, a
silver hue; but good colcothar of vitriol will polish with a very fine and high black ...
James Smith (author of the Panorama of science and art.), 1825
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The mechanic, or, Compendium of practical inventions
The powder I prefer above all others, to give a most exquisite lustre, is colcothar
of vitriol,* and not putty. Putty gives metals a white lustre, or, as workmen call it, a
silver hue; but good colcothar of vitriol will polish with a very fine and high black ...
James Smith (of Liverpool.), 1818
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Gill's technological [afterw.] Gill's scientific, ...
The powder I prefer above all others to give a most exquisite lustre, is colcothar of
vitriol, and not putty. Putty gives metals a white lustre, or, as workmen call it, a
silver hue ; but good colcothar of vitriol will polish with a very fine and high black
...
Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository, Thomas Gill (patent-agent), 1827
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Journal of the Franklin Institute
The powder I prefer above all others, to give a most exquisite lustre, is colcothar
of vitriol, and not putty. Putty gives metals a white lustre, or as workmen call it, a
silver hue; but good colcothar of vitriol will polish with a very fine and high black ...
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The Franklin Journal and American Mechanics' Magazine
The powder I prefer above all others, to give a most exquisite lustre, is colcothar
of vitriol, and not putty. Putty gives metals a white lustre, or as workmen call it, a
silver hue; but good colcothar of vitriol will polish with a very fine and high black ...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, ...
Mr Mudge directs the polisher to be strewed over with very fine putty ; but Mr
Edwards prefers CoLCOTHAR of vitriol. Putty (says he) gives to metals a white
lustre, or, as workmen call it, a silver hue ; but good colcothar of vitriol will polish
with a ...
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Selections from the additions that have been occasionally ...
The powder I prefer above all others to give a most exquisite lustre, is colcothar of
vitriol and not putty. Putty gives metals a white lustre, or, as workmen call it, a
silver huej but good colcothar of vitriol will polish with a very fine and high black ...
Great Britain. Nautical Almanac Office, 1813
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Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and ...
(c) As colcothar of. Measuring Light. Apparatus and parallel to each other, so that
theTTmy be both illuminated in an equal degree by the sun ; and it the
atmosphere, at the moment when the experiment is made, be perfectly
transparent, the ...
Encyclopaedia Britannica, James Millar, 1810
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The Works ... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author. A ...
THE other main thing I would recommend, is, that notice be taken not only of the
kind of vitriol, the Colcothar is made of; (sor I generally used blue Dantzick vitriol)
as martial vitriol, Hungaiian vitriol, Roman vitriol, &e. to whichI have, for curiosity,
...
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The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year ...
Putty gives Metals a white Lustre, or, as Workmen call it, a Silver Hue ; but good
Colcothar of Vitriol will polish with a very fine and high black Lustre, so as to give
the Metal finished with it the Complexion of polished Steel. To know if the ...
