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A treatise on colour manufacture : a guide to the preparation, examination, and application of all the pigment colours in practical use (1908)

Zerr, Georg, Rübencamp, R. (Robert), Mayer, Charles · London : C. Griffin · leaf 440

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us in all cases. This is not the place to enumerate all the various more or less imperfect plants devised for making soot pigments, it being sufficient to mention the most up-to-date types. The furnaces are horizontal or vertical brick shafts or conical cast-iron furnaces, connected by iron or… … cast-iron vessels are charged with the solid or liquid material, a mixture of both being preferable. At one time oil, fish oil, and similar liquids were allowed to drop in thin streams from pipes on to heated iron plates. The oil burned on the plates, but left considerable quantities of coke, and…

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