Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Pigments

36 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

Purple to Pink

Fuchsine diluted with spirit, as desired. sulphate of peroxide of iron. Mix this with the remaining of the first solution, then add very…

Turnbull's Prussian Blue

be decanted, and the carmine that has been Ferricyanide (red prussiate) of potassium, 10 deposited at the bottom collected, and placed…

Prussian Blue (Percyanide when it must be)

Percyanide, when it must be decanted with a syphon into ferrocyanide, or ferroprussiate of iron. Com- shallow plates, and set aside for 3…

Adulteration of Cochineal

boiling weld, or quercitron baik, in water, Genuine cochineal has a specific gravity of and adding alum and chalk in a pasty state. 1.25…

Sap Green

The expressed juice of buckthorn berries (and sometimes of other species of rhamnus, and also of privet berries) orated to dryness. A…

Azure Blue, or Smalts

The common qualities are made by fusing zaffre (roasted cobalt ore calcined with siliceous sand) with 2681. Kirchoff's Method of Making…

To Preserve Vermilion

It is a fact well known to artists that the splendidly bright color of vermilion (cinnabar, sulphide of mercury) has a tendency, especially…

Carthamine or Safflower Lake

Wash safflower till the water comes off colorless; mix it with water holding 15 per cent. of carbonate of soda in solution, so as to form a…

Blue Verditer

It is generally stated to be made by adding chalk to a solution of nitrate of copper produced in the process of refining silver; but Mr…

New Blue

Mix equal parts of common arseniate of copper (see Mineral Green, No. 2711), and neutral arseniate of potash, fuse by heat in a large…

Cobalt Blue

Thénard's blue is made by precipitating a soluble cobalt salt moving the cotton, supersaturate the liquid with a solution of alum, and…

Bistre

This is a brown color ing them in water with a little soda or potash, which is used in water-color painting. It is and adding alum to the…

White Lead

This pigment, at a temperature of 122° Fahr., and stirred which enters largely into the composition of round for an hour at this…

Test for White Lead

Commer- thrown down in the fibre of the wool, which cial carbonate of lead is never quite pure, being has been saturated in the first bath…

Simple Test for White Lead

These are sulphides of cadmium, and, when Take a piece of firm, close-grained charcoal, well prepared, are very stable; they can be and…

Green Oxide of Chromium

This oxide is perfectly stable, and, as so many tints of it can be obtained, including the beaua minute, by which time the oil will be…

Sulphate of Baryta, called bary- pigment

It can be obtained of different tos and constant white, is very permanent, of tints. It is, however, especially useful in a bluish tint…

Chrome Yellow

To a solution 2711. Mineral Green, Scheele's Green, of bichromate of potash add a solution of or Arsenite of Copper. Dissolve 11 ounces…

Chrome Red

Melt saltpetre in a crucible heated to dull redness, and adl chrome yellow, by small portions, till no more red fumes arise. Allow the…

Green without Arsenic

Dissolve 48 pounds sulphate of copper and 2 pounds bichromate of potash in water, and to be blackened by sulphuretted hydrogen. add to the…

Chrome Green

A mixture of chrome yellow and Prussian blue. (See No. 2707.)

Aureolin Yellow

An excellent Take camphor, and set it on fire, and collect pigment in every respect. It is a double the soot by means of a saucer or paper…

To Make Lampblack

This cious painting. It may be used with safety can be prepared on a small scale in the folin oil and in water. Sulphuretted hydrogen…

Naples Yellow

Mix 12 parts metallic antimony, 8 parts red lead, and 4 oxide of zinc, and calcine in a reverberatory furnace. The mixed oxides are rubbed…

Indian Red, or Crocus

This is made from jeweler's rouge, by subjecting the scarlet calcined sesquioxide of iron to a further calcination at a very intense heat…

Brunswick Green

Pour a saturated solution of muriate of ammonia then known as purple brown. over copper filings in a close vessel placed 2719. Ivory-Black…

To Make Purple of Cassius

degree, as the oils of linseed, poppy, rape, and This is a vitrifiable pigment, which stains walnut, are called drying oils, and are used…

French Purple of Cassius

This is similar in preparation to the last receipt, but differs in one ingredient employed, substituting perchloride of iron for the…

Purple of Cassius

To a moderately dilute solution of sesquichloride of iron, add a solution of protochloride of tin, until the mixture becomes green, and…

Dark Colored Boiled Oil

Simmer with frequent stirring, 1 gallon of linseed oil, with pound powdered litharge, until a skin begins to form; then remove the scum…

Pale Boiled Oil

Boil 1 quart linseed oil, and 2 ounces powdered white vitriol (sulphate of zinc), with 1 quart water, until the water has all evaporated…

Very Pale Drying Oil

Mix 2 ounces finely powdered litharge, or dry sulphate of lead, with 1 pint pale linseed or nut oil; agitate frequently for 10 days, then…

Colorless Drying Oil for Paint

Take 5 gallons water, heat it to the boiling point in a vessel holding 15 gallons; when about to boil add 5 gallons linseed oil and 1 acid…

Mulder's Colorless Drying Oil

Boil linseed oil for two hours with 3 per cent. Next dissolve 7 parts gold in an aqua-regia is then taken from the fire and left to settle…

Improved Vehicles for Col- Bright

There is often a difficulty in obtainors. One measure of saturated solution of ing the oils bright after boiling or heating them borax…

Artists' Drying Oil

Mix nut or pale linseed oil with about an equal measure of snow or powdered ice, and keep it for 2 months at a freezing temperature. 2734…

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