British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... known in the earlier ages , though at present it comes to us on- ly from South America . Vauquelin found it to contain of silex 64.5 , argil 16 , glucine 13 , oxide of chrome 3.25 , lime 1.6 , and water 2. The oriental emerald is a ...
... known in the earlier ages , though at present it comes to us on- ly from South America . Vauquelin found it to contain of silex 64.5 , argil 16 , glucine 13 , oxide of chrome 3.25 , lime 1.6 , and water 2. The oriental emerald is a ...
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... known . There are two kinds of enamel ; the opaque and the transparent . Transparent enamels are usually rendered opaque by adding putty , or the white oxide of tin , to them . The basis of all enamels is therefore a perfectly ...
... known . There are two kinds of enamel ; the opaque and the transparent . Transparent enamels are usually rendered opaque by adding putty , or the white oxide of tin , to them . The basis of all enamels is therefore a perfectly ...
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... known by the name of rotten - stone , which is prepared by pounding , washing , decanting off the turbid water , sufiering the fine suspend- ed particles to subside from this water , and lastly levigating it upon a glass plate . The ...
... known by the name of rotten - stone , which is prepared by pounding , washing , decanting off the turbid water , sufiering the fine suspend- ed particles to subside from this water , and lastly levigating it upon a glass plate . The ...
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... known . Enamel is a glass ren- dered opaque by oxide of tin , and very fusible by the oxide of lead . It is this last , which , in particular , gives it proper- ties very different from those of the other excipients of metallic colours ...
... known . Enamel is a glass ren- dered opaque by oxide of tin , and very fusible by the oxide of lead . It is this last , which , in particular , gives it proper- ties very different from those of the other excipients of metallic colours ...
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... known , but was not employed on enamel , because it is then subject to considerable change . Or , perhaps , when the painters on ena- mel became painters on porcelain , they continued to work according to their an- cient method . It ...
... known , but was not employed on enamel , because it is then subject to considerable change . Or , perhaps , when the painters on ena- mel became painters on porcelain , they continued to work according to their an- cient method . It ...
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