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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 61
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On The Comparative Value Of Certain Salt...
Tlie quantum of air too varies in like manner . The gentlest draught is sufficient to set thin garments in these a blaze latter , i whereas how for
ever many , in metals an atmosp common here air of oxygen proves , insufficient which form : s the _effective gnite constituent , - of air
. cotton Reverting , and linen to objects , require of but common a sli life ght we degree observe of both that heat entirel wood , and , pap but and er a , limited of air to igniteTo y
access . suppress , without poured into delay the , is fire the and aim woollen of a perfect cloths extingui wrapped shing tig process htly around . Water it
are at once the simplest and most efficient expedients . A handy housewife knows full well how to extinguish soot burning in the
bustible chimney , by "throwing thus evolved sulphur upon chasing the from fire in the the chimney grate , the -pot incom the - gases
outer column of air _. iron Wood merel , paper y glows , linen ; for , and by the cotton former burn substances with flame gases , whereas are burning evolved , evolves
and flames are gases burning ; while iron in burning no b and gases y flames life . . Flames onl Hence y can are whoever , combustion moreover would , spread the aim essential to at the rendering destruction to a conflagration fabrics of property incom , and
bustiblemust chiefl , y strive to remove tlieir inflammability and , to this bustibility sing , le is point a quality should inherent a chemist in organic confin ht e be m his atter rendered endeavors . It was , for alread inflam com y -
known to the ancients that wood mig non--p mable hosphate by the of ammonia application have of alum been , of recommended late years . borax These and salts the , the effect water and
together with several others , produce same as sulphur the possess fabric in and extingui exclude shing thereb fire : that the is air to ; they say , absorb they encom heat - , y
produce evolve pass non a combination -combustible , which gases , and does in , their raref not chemical y burn ing . the The inflammable authors of gases well the ,
present more as in than the pamp forty royal hlet different laundry have essayed , salts and , certain and have large arrived muslin laboratory at manufactories the following , as ,
results . the themselves The required greater propert To numb fix er y . anti , of hav -inflammable the e an salt inj s experim urious expedient e effe nted ct s on upon in , which fibrous the possess fabrics
substances so . as to resist the process of washing , without at the same time soluble impairing in water their are consequentl strength , has y the not onl been y expedients found attainable which ; adm salts it
. of a practical application , and in this respect two questions for solution An agent are presented at once cheap . and harmless had to be discovered , which ,
without generally increasing in the course considerabl of their y the manufacture price of fabrics . The , mig salt ht be found adopted to sulhate of ammonia
answer this requirement most fully is the p .
Notices Of Books. 61
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 61
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/61/
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