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Patent Base for Artificial tal

Or: 1 pound paste and 3 drachms pur- Gems. The base of these gems, as patented ple of cassius. Or: 4 ounces paste, 4 ounces by the Superintendent of the Royal Porcelain glass of antimony, and drachm purple of Works at Berlin, is a flux obtained by melting cassius; this turns on the orange. together 6 drachms carbonate of soda, 2 drachms burnt borax, 1 drachm saltpetre, 3 drachms minium, and 1½ ounces purest white sand.

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