Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Bronzing

40 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

Chinese Bronze

Take 2 ounces This is the process each verdigris and vermilion; 5 ounces each of giving a bronze-like or an antique alum and sal-ammoniac…

Brown Bronzes for Medals, copper tea-urns

3777. Carbonate of Iron Bronze. &c. Take a wine-glass of water, and add to it 4 or 5 drops nitric acid; with this solution Beautiful tints…

Black Bronzes

A very dark colored bronze may be obtained by using a

Bronzing with Crocus

Make little sulphuretted alkali (sulphuret of ama thin paste of crocus and water lay this monia is best). The face of the medal is ).. The…

Bronzing with Black-Lead

to remain on for about 12 or 15 minutes, After the medal has been well cleaned from wiping it off with a linen…

Plumbago Bronze

This bronze is obtained by brushing the surface of the medal with plumbago, then placing it on a clear fire till it is made too hot to be…

French Bronze

An eminent Parisian sculptor makes use of a mixture of + ounce sal-ammoniac, ounce common salt, 1 ounce spirits of hartshorn, and 1…

Fine Green Bronze

Dissolve 2 ounces verdigris and 1 ounce sal-ammoniac with a solution of sulphuret of potassium,

Antique Bronze

Rub the medal Antique Bronze. Rub the medal in 1 pint vinegar, and dilute the mixture then dry. This produces the appearance of with water…

To Bronze Iron Castings

Greenish Grey and Violet Tint. An cleaning (see No. 3641) and subsequent imorange tint, inclining to gold, is produced by mersion in a…

Moire Bronze

A moire appearance, vastly superior to that usually seen, is produced by boiling the object in a solution der may be placed in a little bag…

To Bronze Paper

Paper is little gum and water, and afterwards burnishbronzed by mixing the powders up with a ing. The paper used should contain sufficient…

Beautiful Red Bronze Powder

3809. Bright Red Bronzing for Cop- Mix together sulphate of copper, 100 parts; carbonate of soda, 60 parts; apply heat until they unite…

Gold Colored Bronze Powder

3810. Dark Red Bronzing for Copper. Dissolve 1 drachm sulphur, and 1 ounce pearlash, in 1 pint water.

Dark Grey Bronzing for Zinc

Mix 1 drachm protochloride of tin, and 1 drachm sulphocyanide of potassium, with 1 Verdigris, 8 ounces; tutty powder, 4 ounces; pint water…

Green-Grey Bronzing for Zinc

Dissolve 1/2 drachm muriate of iron in 1 pint water.

Silver White Bronze Powder

Melt together 1 ounce each bismuth and tin, Use then add 1 ounce running quicksilver; cool garancine (madder-red) infusion boiling hot. and…

Graham's Quick Bronzing Li- Zinc

Agitate the articles in a solution of 8 quids. The following 19 receipts are prepara- drachms sulphate of copper, and 8 drachms tions for…

Red-Brown Bronzing for Brass

Dissolve 1 ounce nitrate of copper, and 1 as represented in Fig. I, No. 3665. This, it will be seen, induces a galvanic current, and is…

Purple Eronzing for Zinc

Immerse in a boiling infusion of logwood. 3817. Larkin's Bronzing Fluids for Alloys of a Silvery-Grey Color. Mr. Larkin states that, for…

Red Bronzing for Brass

Mix 30 grains tersulphite of arsenic, 6 drachms solution of pearlash, and 1 pint water. of any solution of copper. The hydrochlorate of…

Orange Bronzing for Brass

Mix 1 drachm potash solution of sulphur with 1 pint water. 3805. Slate-Colored Bronzing for may have been rubbed off. These new alloys…

Blue Bronzing for Brass

Mix 20 drachms hyposulphite of soda with 1 pint water. 3807. Steel-Grey Bronzing for Brass, or Copper. Mix 1 ounce muriate of arsenic with…

Blackish Bronze Coloring

For giving silvery-grey alloys a blackishbronze color, they are treated with a solution of hydrochlorate of copper diluted with a…

Antique Bronze Coloring

To comes firmly attached. Probably, in the case impart a brass or antique bronze color, either of porcelain, biscuit, or stoneware, some a…

Drab Bronze for Brass

Brass obtains a very beautiful drab bronze by being worked in moulders' damp sand for a short time and brushed up.

Browning for Gun Barrels

Mix 1 ounce each aqua-fortis and sweet spirits of nitre; 4 ounces powdered blue vitriol; 2 agitate until dissolved. ounces tincture of…

To Make Bronzing for Wood

Grind separately to a fine powder, Prussian blue, chrome yellow, raw umber, lampblack, and clay, and mix in such proportions as will…

Separating Funnels

These are are used for separating mixed fluids of different densities. The mixed liquid is poured in-

To Bronze Wood

First coat the clean wood with a mixture of size and lampblack; then apply two coats of the green colored sizing in the last receipt; and…

Pipettes

These are glass instruments used for measuring liquids in drops, and so constructed that the flow of the liquid from them is under the…

To Filter Corrosive Liquids

Strong acids, &c., are filtered through powdered glass or siliceous sand, supported on pebbles in the throat of a glass funnel, or through…

To Filter Precipitates

When filtration is employed to separate precipitated matter from the solution in which it is suspended, the filtering medium should be such…

Goniometer

An instrument cases a liquid will not readily become transused for measuring the angles of crystals. parent by simply passing through the…

To Filter Vegetable Juices

the fluid pass clear. These powders should These should be allowed to deposit their fecu- not be in too fine a state of division, nor used…

Self-Feeding Filter

It is usually a matter of more or less importance in filtration, that the filter should be kept full. To effect this requires unremitting…

Chemical Washing

When precipitation takes place, the deposit requires to undergo edulcoration, or cleansing from the liquid from which it was precipitated…

Chemical Drying

In order to deprive chemical substances of water or moisture, the simplest means is evaporation. This may be performed either by merely…

Decarbonization

This operation is performed on cast iron, to convert it into steel or soft iron. The articles to be decarbonized are packed in…

Decoloration

The blanching cr rises sufficiently to reach to and close the end loss of the natural color of any substance. of the tube a, cutting off…

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