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A practical treatise on dyeing and calico-printing : including the latest inventions and improvements : also a description of the origin, manufacture, uses, and chemical properties of the various animal, vegetable, and mineral substances employed in these arts : with an appendix comprising definitions of chemical terms, with tables of weights, measures, thermometers, hydrometers, &c. (1860)

Parnell, Edward A. (Edward Andrew), Macfarlane, Robert, 1815-1883 · New York : John Wiley · leaf 271

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whole. The phial is then filled up with the unknown bleaching-liquor, shaken, and placed beside that one in the instru- ment, which most resembles it. The number of that phial is its strength in I2ths of a degree of the hydrometer; and, by inspecting the annexed table, we find at once how much of a… … The instrument is formed of long 2 ounce phials, as shown in fig. 17, cast in a mould ;* those of blown glass not being of uniform diameter. The outside, which alone is rough, is polished by grinding. They are placed two and two, so that the bottle containing the liquid to be examined may be set by…

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