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A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments,: Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense.Unknown

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A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments,: Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense.

Name: A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments,: Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense.
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* FRANKFORT BLACK, which takes its name from Frankfort, in
  Germany, is manufactured from the lees of wine,           _oz._  12

  * GAMBOGE, a yellow opaque gum, or mucilage,              _oz._  16

  * GLUE, (gelatine) a jelly procured from skins of
  animals,                                                  _lb._  25

  * GOLD BRONZE, gold in fine powder,                      _pwt._  75

  * GOLD LEAF, thin laminas of gold,                       _book_  45

  * GUM-ARABIC, a mucilaginous substance that exudes from
  certain trees in Arabia,                                  _oz._   6

  * GUM-ASPHALTUM, a bitumen, or mineral pitch,             _oz._   8

  * GUM-COPAL, a hard transparent resin,                    _lb._  40

  * GUM-ELASTIC, (indian rubber, caoutchouc) exudes
  from trees in the West-Indies,                            _oz._   8

  * GUM-SANDARAC, a resin, similar to rosin but much
  harder,                                                   _lb._ 100

  * GUM-SHELLAC, a compound, resinous substance, procured
  from the nests, or cells of an insect,                    _oz._   6

  * GUM-MASTIC, a hard, transparent resin,                  _lb._ 100

  * ISING-GLASS, a kind of transparent glue procured
  from various kinds of fish,                               _oz._  25

  * LAKE, (drop lake) a rose coloured pigment, prepared
  from brazil wood,                                         _oz._ 200

  * LEAD, a brown heavy metal,                              _lb._  12

  LIME, an oxide of calcium, is procured by calcining
  lime stone, marble or chalk,

  * LINSEED OIL, is expressed from ground flaxseed,         _pt._  15

  * LITHARGE, (gold litharge) an oxide of lead,             _oz._   4

  * LITMUS, a blue colouring vegetable,                     _oz._  10

  * MERCURY, (quick silver) a metal that remains fluid
  in the common temperature of the atmosphere,              _oz._   8

  * MURIATE OF AMMONIA, (sal ammoniac) is formed by adding
  muriatic acid to liquid ammonia, evaporating, &c.,        _oz._   6

  MURIATE OF SODA, (culinary salt) is procured by
  evaporating the water of the ocean,

  * MURIATE OF STRONTIA, procured by dissolving native
  carbonate of strontia, in muriatic acid, and
  evaporating,                                              _oz._  75

  MURIATE OF LIME, formed by evaporating a solution of
  marble in muriatic acid,

  * MURIATIC ACID, (marine acid, spirit of salt) is
  extracted from sea-salt,                                  _oz._  12

  * NITRATE OF AMMONIA, procured by dissolving carbonate
  of ammonia (common smelling salts) in nitric acid,        _oz._  20

  * NITRATE OF POTASS, (nitre, salt-petre) may be procured
  by adding nitric acid to a solution of sub-carbonate of
  potass, and crystallizing by evaporation,                 _oz._   3

  * NITRATE OF STRONTIA, procured the same as the muriate,  _oz._  75

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