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Aniline Colors
To Clean Ink Rollers
Rollers enough to take fire, stir in by degrees suffishould not be washed immediately after use, cient lampblack to make the mixture black…
Black Printing Ink
Boil 1½ gallons old clear linseed oil to the consistence of a thick varnish; whilst hot, add to it, during constant stirring, first 6…
Lithographic Ink (M Lasteyrie states that after)
M. Lasteyrie states that, after having tried a great many combinations, he gives the preference to the following:-Dry tallow soap, mastich…
Black or Colored Printing Ink
Balsam copaiba, 9 ounces; lampblack, 3 ounces; Paris blue, 14 ounces; Indian red, ounes; dry resin soap, 3 ounces. These will produce a…
New Ink for Printers
A new in distilled or river water. It should be flowink for printers has been invented by Professor Artus, and Mr. Fleckstein, a…
Durable Autographic Ink
White wax, 8 ounces; and white soap, 2 to 3 ounces; melt; when well combined add lampnew, beautiful, and cheap ink is described as follows…
Indelible Printing Ink
Mix 1 the same way as common water-color cakes pound varnish (such as is used for ordinary or Indian ink. In winter this should be done…
Lithographic Ink (Grind together parts mastich)
Grind together 8 parts mastich, in tears, and 12 parts shellac; dissolve carefully by heat in 1 part Venice turpentine; after the mixture…
Lithographic Transfer Ink
Melt together 8 parts white wax and 2 parts tained from coal tar (not from petroleum). In white soap; and, before they become hot preparing…
Aniline Green
Aniline green is produced from a solution of sulphate of rosaniline in dilute sulphuric acid and some aldehyde, which is heated till its…
To Prepare Aldehyde
Aldebegins to boil at 374°, and at 3920 has lostonly hyde is made by filling a tubulated glass re- 60 per cent. Evidently with these…
Rosaniline, or Fuchsine
The duced, the mixture commences to boil and alprincipal methods for the manufacture of fuch- dehyde begins to distill over, the remainder…
Aniline Blue (Re- colors The most sensitive)
Aniline blue re- colors. The most sensitive among these, for ults from various processes. The one most impure alcohol, is aniline purple…
To Remove Aniline Colors
There are various ways proposed to remove aniline colors, the following being the simplest and most practical. Goods dyed with aniline…
Aniline Black
When a salt of aniline in solution is exposed to the action of certain oxydizers, as salts of copper, a black dye, of such depth that…
Aniline Black for Dyeing
According to Mr. Köchlin, aniline black is produced as follows: Water, 20 to 20 parts; chlorate of potassa, 1 part; sal ammoniac, 1 part…
Aniline Black on Wool
For 2568. New Mordant Applicable to 2 pounds of wool a bath is prepared of 20 Aniline Colors. For this purpose the oxide quarts water, 3…
Aniline Cerise and Safranine
These colors resemble magenta in appearance, and appear to be varieties of that substance. They are readily soluble in alcohol, and more or…
To Dye Aniline Yellow
This color is slightly soluble in water, and for dyers' use may be used directly for the presive passages through a solution of nitrate or…
To Dye Silk or Wool Magenta
is developed, similar to the yellow of picric Sufficient water to cover, without difficulty, acid, and which M. Schiff claims to possess…
To Dye with Aniline Brown
mordant is required. A snuff brown, more or less deep, is produced. 2582. Το Prepare Aniline Scarlet Add a sufficient quantity of the dye…
To Dye with Aniline Scarlet
Add to the bath containing the dye, an excess of alum and cream of tartar; neutralize carefully by carbonate of soda-the exact point may be…
To Dye Wool Bismarck Brown
Render the bath, prepared as in No. 2491, sour with sulphuric acid; add a quantity of sulphate of soda, immerse the wool, and add the color…
To Dye Aniline Scarlet
For every 40 pounds of goods, dissolve 5 pounds Brown. Cotton requires mordanting with white vitriol (sulphate of zinc) at 180c Fahr…
To Prepare Coralline Dye
Dissolve 1 pound coralline in 1½ gallons alcohol specific gravity .8200, by the aid of heat; mix the solution with 7½ gallons boiling…
To Dye with Vesuvine
This aniline color is prepared and used in the same manner as magenta. (Sce No. 2575, ctc.)
To Dye with Aurine
Dissolve 1 pound aurine in 2 gallons alcohol specific gravity 8200. This color is used principally for silk. Dye in a bath containing a…
To Dye with Palatine Orange
The palatine orange dye is prepared in a similar manner to magenta. (See No. 2575.) Render the bath slightly acid by bichloride of tin, and…
To Dye with Coralline
Add the color prepared as in No. 2585, to the dye bath, and neutrallize with acetic acid. The exact point is indicated by the pink color of…
To Dye with Phosphine
merse the goods, and, when the required color Phosphine is treated in the same way as palais obtained, remove and wash in a bath of tine…
Water-Glass as a Solvent of soap bath
Coralline. Dissolve coralline in a boiling 2598. To Dye Silk with Aniline mixture of 1 part concentrated water-glass Green. Iodine green…
To Dye with Iodine Green
Green. Mix 3 pounds of iodine green paste well with about 24 pounds of cold water; then add sucfor stirring, put1 pound of the dye, 5…
To Dye with Picric Acid
Dis- be rendered alkaline by borax. The fabric solve 1 pound picric acid in 1 gallon of alcohol should be well worked about between each be…
To Dye with Aniline Blue
To 100 pounds of fabric dissolve 14 pounds of aniline blue in 3 quarts hot alcohol; strain strain through a filter, and add it to a bath of…
To Dye with Hoffman's Purple
as this will make the fabric more susceptible to the color. Blues soluble in water color The dye is prepared as other purples. (See more…