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To Make Lampblack

This cious painting. It may be used with safety can be prepared on a small scale in the folin oil and in water. Sulphuretted hydrogen lowing manner: Suspend over a lamp a does not affect it, and it is permanent when conical funnel of tin plate, having above it a submitted to the severest tests. It is not pipe to convey from the apartment the smoke affected by admixture with other colors. which escapes from the lamp. Large mush-

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