The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 449
to within aninch of the nock, thendissolve in it a tea-spoonful of acetate oflead, shaking it up wellto secure perfect inter-mixture ; then add afew drops of hydro-chloric acid, which willstimulate the action.Have a loosely-fittingcork, and bore a hole through the centre ; through this hole pass a… … hours, and by the end of that time the bottle will be filled witha beautiful mass of foliage (Fig. 1), all the leaves formed oflead, yet light as eiderdown, as will be seen by the shaking of the liquid. It is aa well to cut anotch down one sideof the cork, to allow ameans of escape for thegenerated…
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