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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Powdered Tin

Take Cornish grain tin; melt it, and pour it into a wooden gentle heat, cool, edulcorate with water, disbox, well rubbed on the inside with whiting or chalk; close the cover, and continue shak- nitric acid, precipitate with carbonate of poting it violently until the tin is reduced to powder; then wash it in clean water, and dry it immediately.

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