Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Dry Glauber salts, 11 pounds; soaper salts, 12 pounds; bushel of waste soap ashes; sand, 56 pounds; glass skimmings, 22 pounds; green broken glass, 1 cwt.; basalt, 25 pounds. This mixture affords a dark green glass. Or: Yellow or white sand, 100 parts; kelp, 30 to 40 parts ; ing in the feed water. A practical engineer lixiviated wood ashes, from 160 to 170 parts; fresh wood ashes, 30 to 40 parts; potter's says: Our boilers were badly incrusted . We fresh wood ashes, 30 to 40 parts; potter's loosened the scale with chisels and kerosene clay, 80 to 100 parts; cullet, or broken glass, oil, and after running them a year as above, 100 parts. If basalt be used, the proportion they came out as clean and bright as could be. of kelp may be diminished. 2342. Broad, or Green Window Glass.

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