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Dryer for Zinc White

Mix together thoroughly 10 parts each sulphate of manganese, acetate of manganese, and sulphate of zinc, with 144 parts zinc white. An addition of 2 or 3 per cent. of this dryer to zinc white oil paint will make it dry hard.

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