A practical handbook of dyeing and calico-printing. With eleven page-plates, forty-seven specimens of dyed and printed fabrics, and thirty-eight woodcuts (1874)
Crookes, William, 1832-1919 · London, Longmans, Green · leaf 134
lixiviation and evapora-tion. 100 parts of raw soda have been found to yield— Soluble matter 45-0 parts. Soda-waste 55-7 fl 1007 >>We shall presently see how this waste is made a source of profit to the manufacturer, but we must now continue to trace the course of the product in which our… … great labour. The method of lixiviation invented by Mr. James Shanks,of St. Helens, is the most economical, as well as the most philosophical.The apparatus is based upon the principle that a short column of a liquid ofsuperior density can be made to balance a higher column of a liquid of aninferior…
Dyes and dyeing · Calico-printing
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