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.

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Pale Violet Fire

Take 14 parts sulphur, 16 parts alum, 16 carbonate of potassa, 54 parts chlorate of potassa. 2095.. Dark Violet Fire. Take 12 parts alum, 12 parts carbonate of potassa, 16 parts sulphur, 60 parts chlorate of potassa.

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