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To Prepare Nitro-glycerine
about 1/8 inch in depth. Or they may be dipped into camphorated spirit. Or into a solution of 1 ounce Venice turpentine and 1/2 ounce camphor, in + pint oil of turpentine, ping in the phosphorus paste.
Mix 100 parts fuming nitric acid at 500 Baumé with a little gum-benzoin and cascarilla by with 200 parts sulphuric acid; when cool, add way of perfume. After any of the above 38 parts glycerine slowly, allowing it to preparations the matches are ready for diptrickle down the sides of the vessel. The glycerine will remain on the surface for hours without mixing. Stir the glycerine and acids with a glass rod for 10 seconds, pour it into 20 times its volume of water, and the nitroglycerine will be instantly precipitated to the extent of 76 parts, or double the amount of glycerine employed. It must be repeatedly washed with water, and then saturated with bicarbonate of soda or lime.