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Ink for Writing on Tin Plates

6373. To Prevent Lamp Chimneys Mix together without heat, 1 part pine soot, from Cracking. Put the chimneys into a with 60 parts of an aqueous solution of nitrate kettle of cold water, and gradually heat it of copper. (Hager.) until it boils, and then let it as gradually cool;

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