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.

Home › Acids › Pyrogallic Acid

Pyrogallic Acid

This acid is the necessity of the old plan of letting down formed in white, shining scales, inodorous, a burning candle before venturing in. If the very bitter; soluble in water, alcohol, and candle will not burn, man cannot breathe ether; fusible at 239° Fahr., and subliming at there. With the bases, this acid forms CAR- 410°. When quite pure, it has no action on BONATES. litmus paper. It is used in photography.

Read next

← Carbonic Acid (Comtilled water for a few)To Obtain Carbonic Acid →