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 › Miscellaneous Chemicals › Tannate of Iron

Tannate of Iron

Dissolve 1 part of tannin in 150 of boiling water; add 9 dryness. parts hydrated sesquioxide of iron, freshly 4181. Carbonate of Potassa. This is precipitated, washed, and dried in the water- also known under the name Salt of Tartar, bath; evaporate gently to one half; filter, and Salt of Wormwood. The crude carbonate then add 1 part sugar, evaporate to dryness, is obtained by lixiviating (see No. 23) wood and keep in a close vessel. Or: 1 part sesquioxide of iron and 2 of tannic acid evaporated to dryness with 3 parts alcohol.

Read next

← Acetate of PotassaNitrate of Iron →