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Melt together 8 parts of copper, 5 parts of zinc, and 3 parts of nickel.
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.
Melt together 8 parts of copper, 5 parts of zinc, and 3 parts of nickel.