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in Bleaching, 0)02; Bleaching Discolored Flannels, 602 ; Drying Cloth Fab- 

 rics, 577. 



Dyeing and Printing-, Mordants: Apple-juice for Fixing Colors, 552; 

 Alum for Mordanting Woolens, 552; Fixing Aniline on Cotton, 580 ; Dye- 

 stuffs: Sidorin-Yellow, 551; (Irenade. 551; a New Dye, 552; Anthrapur- 

 piirine, 577 ; I'lirpurinc. 578 ; New Aniline Red, 580 ; Brown for Woolen, 

 581 ; Artiticial Alizarine, 582 ; Aniline Black with Tungstate of Copper, 584; 

 Cannelle Brown, G03 ; a New Dye, G03 ; Processes : Specks in Cochineal 

 Dves, 553 ; Dyeing Silk, 578 ; Dying Kid Gloves, 579 ; Aniline Green on 

 Straw, 581 ; Dyeing Feathers, 582 ; Green on Silk, G04; Hj-drosulphite of 

 Soila in Dyeing Indigo, G14; Chamois on Half "Wool, G05. Antiseptic?, 

 Preservatives, and Deodorizers: Carbolic Acid, 555 ; Fuchsin, 557; Sili- 

 cate of Soda, 557 ; Preventing Mould on Mucilage, 585 : Removing Odor 

 of Sulphide of Carbon, 5G-4. 



Painting, Staining, and Varnishing. Materials : Black Aniline Var- 

 nish, 546; Varnish for Basket-ware, 557; Chinese Water-proof Varnish from 

 Blood, 584; French Drying-varnish, 584; Aqueous Solution of Shellac, 555; 

 Kubber-graphite Paint, 556; Rendering Lamb-black Miscible in Water, G12; 

 Ebony Stain for Wood, 553; Processes: Plow to Varnish, 606. 



Oils and Wax : Bleaching Vegetable Oils, 550 ; Action of Sunlight on 

 Olive-oil, 612 ; Extraction of Rape-seed Oil by Bisulphide of Carbon, 553 ; 

 Quick-drying Oil, 584 ; Preventing Explosiveness of Petroleum, 554 ; Ex- 

 plosive Oils, 585 ; Petroleum Oils, 655 ; Oil from Birds, 566 ; Ceresine, a Fos- 

 sU Wax, 568 ; Chinese Peh-Lah Wax, 572. 



Plating or Coating with Metals : Moulds for Electrotypes, 547 ; Elec- 

 tro-stannus Method, 558 ; Metallic Coating by the Wet Method, 589 ; Hot 

 Gilding of Iron, 559 ; Tests for Gilding, 560 ; Gilding Glass, 562 ; Coating 

 Fibres with Silver, 560 ; Silvering Glass Vessels, 561, 607 ; Mirrors for Re- 

 flecting Telescopes, 593 ; Coating Vegetable Fabrics with Tin, 607 ; Coat- 

 ing Copper Avith Iron, 562; Iron with Copper, 588 ; Zincing Iron, 587; Pyro- 

 ]tlating, 550 ; Substituting Manganese for Nickel in Plating, 591. Weld- 

 ing and Soldering : LTnion of Iron and Steel, 591. Cementing : Chalk 

 and Soluble Glass, 557 ; Fastening IMetals on Glass, 605 ; Leather Glue, 569 ; 

 Improved Gum- Arabic INIucilage, 605 ; Permanent Paste, 606. Temper- 

 ing Steel Gravers, Drills, etc., 562 ; Hardening Steel Tools, 608. Casting 

 and Fusing : Casting INIetals in a Vacuum, 591 ; Blow-pipe Furnace, 592; 

 Wliite-^Metal Alloy for Machines, 563. Sundry Chemical Processes : Pu- 

 ritication of Caustic Soda, 563 ; Preparation of Carbonate of Magnesia, 614 ; 

 Chrome Alum, 695 ; Fluoride of Calcium, 608 ; Uses of Bisulphide of Car- 

 bon, 596 ; Centrifugal Action in the Manufacture of Sugar, 564 ; Manu- 

 facture of Coal-tar, 695. 



Raw or Simple Materials used in the Arts : Ruhher: Utilizing Waste, 

 .^JG; Elastic Kul)b(T IJands, 569 ; Wool: Keeping Moist, 598 ; Treatment 

 by (ilycerine, 598 ; Washing of, 599 ; Whitening, 602 ; *S'/7^-; Yellow Color 

 of, 570 ; Silk without the Worm, 570 ; Improvement in the Manufacture of, 

 .570; (klatine: Preparation of, 594 ; Conversion of Young Deer-horn into, 

 GIO; Paper: Water-proof Pasteboard, 549 ; Artiticial Grass from Parch- 

 ment Paper, 593; Vegetable ParchnK'nt,.^)93 ; Litpiid Parchment, 60G; Man- 

 ufucture of Piilj) from Wood, 5(i7, Utilizing Waste Products : Waste Rub- 

 ber, 5.")(; -. Sc|arating Brass from I'urnace Slag, 5t>5; Extracting Wool from 



