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To Dissolve Gum Shellac

Everybody who has ever to deal with bleached gum shellac knows the difficulties and the loss of time attending its solution. To obviate this, the gum is broken into small pieces and macerated in a stoppered bottle with ether; after swelling up sufficiently, the excess of other is poured off, when it will dissolve quite readily in alcohol. (See No. 2903.) and colorless.