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Corrofive fublimatc and white precipitate are 

 ufed in printing cotton, to make the cloth receive 

 the colours, efpcciully red, and to make them 

 fpread equally upon the ground. It is a general, 

 though ncedlcfs praclicc, to add corrofive fubli- 

 mate, as on<* of the ingredients, to the prepara- 

 tion for dyeing black iilk. Chcmifts, too, fre- 

 quently ufc corrofive fublimatc in examining wa- 

 ters ; in preparing butter from antimony, and 

 other metals ; as alfo in the preparation of fal 

 Alcmbroth. 



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