10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOUCH PAPER»
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touch paper in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Touch-Paper For use as fuses in several of the succeeding experiments a
quantity of touch-paper will be desirable. This can be made by saturating strips of
unsized paper in a concentrated solution of potassium nitrate and allowing them
to dry ...
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The Pyrotechnist's Companion: Or, A Familiar System of ...
Touch-paper. — This is a paper impregnated with a solution of saltpetre, by
which it acquires the property of burning slowly away without flame, and yet with
sufficient strength to communicate its fire to mealed powder, when it comes in
contact.
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Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pyrotechnics: (and Related Subjects)
TOUCH PAPER – (Also blue touch paper) – Paper that has been impregnated
with potassium nitrate such that it ignites easily from a match or glowing punk; it
burns readily in a smoldering reaction without producing flame. For many years, it
...
K.L. Kosanke, Barry T. Sturman, Robert M. Winokur,
2012
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The School Boy's Holiday Companion; Or, Treasury of ...
T. KENTISH (Writer of Children's Books.) and swinging the paper upwards, till the
wind. catches it ;. then loose it, and let it rise. To CAUSE A PARACHUTE To FALL
rRoM A BALLOON AT A HEIGHT IN THE AIR. Paste a piece of touch paper ab ...
T. KENTISH (Writer of Children's Books.),
1840
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Artificial fireworks: improved to the modern practice, from ...
Touch- Paper for Capping of Serpents, Crackers, &c. Dissolve, in spirits of wine
or vinegar, a little faltpetre; then take some purple or blue paper, and wet it with
this liquor, and when dry it will be fit for use.; when you paste this paper on any of
...
Robert Jones (Captain.), John Muller,
1776
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1862 Army Officer's Pocket Companion
Touch-Paper.—If the ashes of a cigar be well rubbed into a bit of paper, they
convert it into touch-paper. Gunpowder also, if rubbed into paper, has the same
effect; and injured gunpowder will do as well for this purpose as good. To
prepare a ...
7
An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions
Blue touch-paper See light the blue touch- paper. Blue yonder See wide blue
yonder. Bluff See call their bluff. Blushes See spare their blushes. Board See
above board, across the board, back to the drawing board, bring onboard, come
on ...
Ian Stuart-Hamilton,
2004
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Photographic Accessories 1890-1970
It was even filled into small cardboard tubes with a touch paper fuse, rather like a
tiny firework. Flash powder can be set off by an electrically heated wire. Small
cardboard or metal containers of flash powder were sold that could be inserted
into ...
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The Pyrotechnist's Treasury: A Guide to Making Fireworks and ...
If the rocket is intended to be lit with a port-fire, take a circular piece of touch-
paper, about 2 inches diameter, slightly paste it all over, lay it in the left hand,
press the mouth of the rocket down upon it, and smooth the edges of the touch-
paper up ...
Thomas Kentish, Stephen Ashley,
2012
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The Pyrotechnist's Treasury, or, Complete Art of Making ...
Otherwise, smear the end of the case with the sash-tool dipped into meal paste,
and when dry, paste a bit of touch-paper round it, and twist to a point, like a squib.
The appearance of the rocket is shown at fig. 36; the dotted line round the ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOUCH PAPER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
touch paper is used in the context of the following news items.
CONCACAF draw lights 2018 touch paper
The road to the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ kicked off, officially, on Thursday evening in Miami Beach, when representatives of CONCACAF conducted a ... «FIFA.com, Jan 15»
Colin Towns' Blue Touch Paper review – 'Fast-changing and …
His Anglo-German group Blue Touch Paper is touring all week, principally with material from 2013's Drawing Breath. As the rocket's takeoff faded, Polar Bear ... «The Guardian, Feb 14»
Colin Towns' Blue Touch Paper: Drawing Breath – review
Colin Towns' Blue Touch Paper: Drawing Breath – review. 5 / 5 stars. (Provocateur). Blue Touch Paper An atmosphere of youthful exuberance … Blue Touch ... «The Guardian, Oct 13»
Phobias so weird they'll scare you
Her brother Jack once said in an interview, “All you have to do is just touch her .... As one sufferer explains: "If I touch paper.. it makes me shiver, when I'm writing ... «NEWS.com.au, Oct 12»
Disposable Touch Paper Interface: the Way of the Future?
If you ever got a chance to watch the short-lived Caprica, they had a technology just like this. Now, it looks like smart paper could soon be upon us, as the ... «Technabob, Nov 10»