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.

Electroplating With Various Metals

8 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

Galvanic Tinning

M. Maistrasse-Dupré, it appears, had been commissioned by the French government to apply, by galvanic means, tin upon divers objects which…

Cyanide Solution of Copper

wire with the piece of zinc in the porous cell, To prepare copper solutions by means of and immersed in the outer liquid, when it will…

To Electroplate with Tin

Tin purposes is as follows: To a solution of sulis easily deposited from a solution of proto- phate of copper, add a solution of…

Electroplating with Palladium

with copper by the cyanide solution, the sul- Palladium is a metal very easily deposited. phate will make these parts of a dark color, The…

To Coat Iron with Zinc

In requires rather a thick deposit to protect covering iron with zinc, the precautions ne- metals from the action of acids, which is…

To Prepare a Brass Solution

Brass Solution. lution, take 1 pound carbonate of ammonia, 1 pound cyanide of potassium, 2 ounces cyanide of copper, and 1 ounce cyanide of…

To Protect Copper and Brass

Copper and brass are equally well protected tained. Should the copper have a tendency and brass are equally well protected tained. Should…

To Electroplate with Silicium

(in the proportions given above for the brass), bonate of ammonia and cyanide of potassium can be obtained direct from silica: Take the In…

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