The manufacture of alum and the sulphates and other salts of alumina and iron; their uses and applications as mordants in dyeing and calico printing, and their other applications in the arts, manufactures, sanitary engineering, agriculture, and horticulture (1901)
Geschwind, Lucien · London : Scott, Greenwood & son; New York : D. Van Nostrand co. [etc., etc.] · leaf 137
AND COMPOUNDS OF THESE METALS I I 7 red sandstones, Vosgian sandstones, etc. This oxide also enters into the composition of ochre. … Fig. 41. — Oligistic iron Fig. 40. — Oligistic iron Fig. 42. — Oligistic iron (haematite). (Primi¬ (haematite). (Primi¬ (haematite). (From tive and rhombo- tive basal form. ) the Altenberg mines. ) hedral. ) The sp. gr. is 5*2 to 5*3 ; hardness, 5‘ 5 to 6*5. It is soluble in boiling concentrated…
Alum · Sulphates · Dyes and dyeing · Chemistry, Technical
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