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Scientific amusements (1890)

Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 186

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by means of boiling wa^eruntil the vessel is about half-full. One hundred parts ofacetate of soda is then dissolved in fifteen parts of water CRYSTALLIZATION. 19 and poured slowly into the first solution, so that they formtwo layers perfectly distinct from each other. The twosolutions are then… … Expenment of instantaneous crystallization. superposed on each other. A thread, at the end of whichis fixed a small crystal of hyposulphite of soda, is thenlowered into the test-glass ; the crystal passes through thesolution of acetate without disturbing it, but it has scarcelyreached the lower…

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