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Scientific American, Vol. 94, No. 25 (June 1906) (1906)

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Scientific American 5i6 Tune 1906 2-? .11 FRENCH CANDLE MAKING. BY JACQUES BOYEK. The tallows, oils and other fatty substances from which common candles are made are mixtures of a solid fat, stearine, with a liquid fat, or oil, oleine. Most of the defects of the old-fashion- ed tallow candle are… … run and "gutter' in burning or grease everything that it touches. The problem of producing stear- ine candles, first broached by Braconnot, was solved theoreti- cally by the cele- brated Chevreul and practically by Milly and Dr. Motartf, who suc- ceeded in over- coming the tech- nical difficulties…

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