| John Webster - 1811 - 262 pages
...spark, detonation will take place; but if pure oxygen gas be mixed with the hydrogen in the proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter, the detonation will be much louder and sharper, the whole of the gas will disappear, and water be produced.... | |
| 1861 - 588 pages
...greenhouse kinds, thrives well in good friable well-pulverized loam and leaf mould, in the proportions of three parts of the former to one of the latter. The tubers require to be planted with the crown of small incipient buds just exposed above the soil, and... | |
| Useful arts - 1851 - 228 pages
...placed over a fire, is filled to within six inches of the top with tar and pitch, in the proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter; the fire being applied and the mixture made to boil, the paper is immersed in it one sheet at a time, and... | |
| George Bacon Wood - 1856 - 894 pages
...two. It was a favourite application of Scudamore in acute gout, mixed with alcohol, in the proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter. The mixture was applied to the inflamed joint on linen compresses of six or eight folds, or by means of... | |
| George Bacon Wood - 1860 - 876 pages
...two. It was a favourite application of Scudamore in acute gout, mixed with alcohol, in the proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter. The mixture was applied to the inflamed joint on linen compresses of six or eight folds, or by means of... | |
| Hardships - 1861 - 168 pages
...feet wide by two deep, and fill it within six inches: of the top with tar and pitch, in proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter ; the fire being applied, and the mixture made to boil, immerse the paper in it one sheet at a time, and... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 876 pages
...India ink — a combination of lampblack with glue or gum, in the proportions, as given by Dioseorides, of three parts of the former to one of the latter. The liquor of the cuttle fish is also said by Cicero and Pliny to have been in use for ink. These preparations... | |
| John Grant - 1875 - 222 pages
...carbonate of lime and other matters soluble in hydrochloric or nitric acids are in proportion as 1 to 3. The best cement or mortar is obtained from limestones...insoluble crystallized silicate of lime, when made into mortar. Mr. GF WHITE, as a manufacturer of Portland cement, desired to express his high appreciation... | |
| John Grant - 1875 - 206 pages
...carbonate of lime and other matters soluble in hydrochloric or nitric acids are in proportion as 1 to 3. The best cement or mortar is obtained from limestones...of the former to one of the latter. The quantity of silicio acid and silica which exists in Halkin Mountain limestone, as per sample analyzed, being evenly... | |
| Francis Chilton Young - 1881 - 842 pages
...Silicious sand of great fineness, or emery grindstones. pOW(Jer, and shell lac are taken in the proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter. The sand must be well washed and the shell lac melted, after which the sand must be stirred into the melted... | |
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