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Page xvii - Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean : nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation : and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
Page 216 - Red lead is seldom sold in the condition in which it comes from the furnace but is screened or ground to different degrees of fineness, according to the purpose for which it is to be used.
Page xvii - Lead is as old as the hills or older and is almost as old in its use by man.
Page 214 - ... in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of air, which furnishes the oxygen for the coming union.
Page 262 - Romans made use of the process not only 265 for jewelry and small art objects but to glorify the drapery of their statues.
Page 88 - Second, it provides an economical means of duplicating the forms so that several impressions of the same page may be made at one operation of the press.
Page 106 - When he has fashioned a core that will follow all the turnings of the valve, molten lead is poured in to fill the space between the core and the valve interior.