RECORDS 



OF 



GENERAL SCIENCE. 



MARCH, 1835. 



Article I. 



On Calico- Printing. By Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.R.S., 

 L. and E., &c, Regius Professor of Chemistry in the 

 University of Glasgow. 



(continued from p. 19. ) 



When the aluminous mordant already described is printed 

 on the cloth its basis (alumina) becomes fixed, and ready to 

 combine with whatever colouring matter may be subjected to 

 its action . Another mode of applying the same mordant, and 

 producing patterns with it, is to impregnate the whole cloth 

 with it, and afterwards to print the figure with a substance 



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