Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

Alcoholmetry

8 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

Gendar's Hydrometer

Annexed we give a comparative view of the scales of Tralles Tralles and Gendar, the former used by…

Twaddell's Hydrometer

This Hydrometer is much used in the bleaching and dyeing establishments in Scotland, and some parts of England. According to this scale O…

Precautions in Testing Acids

It of a sample under inspection, add cautiously is essential to success, in testing acetic or from a weighed quantity of powdered pure a…

Table of Equivalents of Alkalis

Pure ammonia.. GRAINS. 17 53 69 Dry carbonate of soda.

Table of Equivalents of Acids

This table is based on the foregoing table of The accuracy of the tests, when saturation is resorted to, depends greatly on the exact point…

Acidimeter

An acidimeter is a The lent number (see No. 81) of the acid under ex-glass tube, graduated with 100 divisions, amination, that the…

ALKALIMETRY

THE THERMOMETER. various appliances are resorted to, by which | Next, exactly neutralize the alkaline solution the outward flow can be…

To find the strength of an Alkali

Place 100 grains of the alkali in a tube, and agitate it with about + ounce hot water. When settled, pour off the clear into a vessel for…

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