Important: Safety Warning
This page describes trade processes that use dangerously toxic materials such as cyanide solutions, mercury amalgams, or strong acids. These processes require training, equipment, and precautions far beyond what the text describes.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Iron-lustre
This lustre is obtained by dissolving zinc in muriatic acid, and mixing the solution with spirit of tar. To be applied on the surface of the iron.