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It could also be treated by rubbing salt, brain or potash alum into the surface to produce a very pale leather.
One site said that clarifying agents could control snails, so I sent my son to the chemist for alum.
To one pound of yarn take 1 quarter pound of fustic and a like amount of alum and good lye.
This, washed and then boiled, yielded aluminium sulphate, which, when ammonia was added, became alum.
It was called Alum Root Flower because its roots shared the astringent qualities of species of true alum root.
We have a formal where we invite every alum whose ever been through to come back.
Water in which alum is dissolved, has indeed a constringent effect upon the animal fibre.
The degree to which an alum or member goes out and actively supports the team or association is an important measure of active loyalty.
For dry shade, also try Douglas iris, any of the alum roots, hummingbird sage, sword fern, and foothill sedge.
I have no idea how it's manufactured, but it's a kind of alum, a double sulfate of aluminum in crystal salt form.
Heuchera americana, or alum root, is adaptable to sun or shade, given sufficient moisture.
Astringent varieties contain alum, which makes your mouth pucker when the fruits are eaten before they're fully ripe.
Another plant, also called alum root, was pounded up and used wet to apply to sores and swellings.
A viscous residue in the bottom of each and a foul smell that denoted combinations of alum with white vitriol, sulphate of iron, and of acetate of lead with opium and ipecac.
The boys that were charged, let the court system work that out, added Kenny Fazi, another Big Red alum and retired mill worker.
To compensate, the manuring of the alum will be made before the dumping of lagoons with a boat kind pontoon.
If the waspy virtue of practicality has taken a backseat to bling, then what distinguishes your average St. Pauls alum from a Real Housewife?
To fix this dye, the mordancy was achieved by alum, a method known since immemorial times, including Babylon.
You might think, as a U. S. C. alum, that I would take great delight in this development.
An inventory of Okeman's works near Poole in Dorset, dated November 1583, records 55 hogsheads of copperas, along with the equipment for manufacturing alum and copperas.
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Small tables stood by pine and cedar trees that were covered with alum icicles and sifted over with diamond dust.
A bright olive may be made from fustic and oak bark, adding a little turmeric and alum water.
The surfaces of the slates were covered with an efflorescence of alum and sulphur.
Examples of simple forms amongst crystallized substances are octahedra of alum and spinel and cubes of salt and fluorspar.
From this solution alum crystals are obtained by the addition of potassium or ammonium sulphate.
This was the common potash alum and uncombined with any carbonated alkali, and it passed into the stomach unchanged.
In another chapter upon ox-gall I shall explain why the colors used with carrageen size must be transferred on alum paper.
Beautiful crystals of alum may be obtained by dissolving 25 g. of alum in 50 ccm.
By increasing the proportion of pearl ash the red may be made still paler, in which case make the alum water stronger.
The colour may be varied by substituting alum for pearlash, or by the addition of a little spirits of tin.
The whole of the solfatara crater has been enclosed for the purpose of manufacturing alum from its soil.
Another typical case of combination tannage is the Dongola leather produced by the use of gambier and of alum and salt.
Of late years large quantities of alum have been prepared on the banks of the Tyne from aluminous clay.
Epsom salts, niter and alum have been obtained from the earth of the cave.
The calcium carbonate was included to prevent the acidic alum from significantly increasing the water's acidity.
A strong solution of alum put into glue will make it insoluble in water.
Our borough's museum is just five miles from England's first successful alum works, and most of the country's alum was made in this corner of Yorkshire.
The study conducted over animal models showed that it helped protein antigens to induce an immune response more than six times stronger than when alum was used.
Silk may be dyed crimson, by steeping it in a solution of alum, and then dyeing it in the usual way in a cochineal bath.
Moisten a piece of paper with a solution of soap and alum, lay it on the print or picture, and pass it under a rolling press.
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