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nth. Chemical Process of Bleaching Bees-Wax. 
— “Add to one pound of melted wax, two ounces of 
pulverized nitrate of soda, and stir in by degrees a mix- 
ture of one ounce of sulphuric acid and nine ounces of 
water. When all the acid is added, it is allowed to be- 
come partly cooled, and the vessel is then filled up 
with boiling water and allowed to cool off slowly. The 
wax, when cold, is put into boiling water to remove 
the sulphate of soda and acid. It is then quite white, 
and should be perfectly freed from nitric acid, which 
tends to render it yellow ." — American Bee Journal. 
