her Liquors=: Sections 1. General Considerations; 2.
Apparatus of Schloesing and Rolland; 3. Apparatus of the Societe Anonyme
de l'Est.--=Index.=

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=THE MANUFACTURE OF VARNISHES, OIL REFINING AND BOILING, AND KINDRED
INDUSTRIES.= Describing the Manufacture of Spirit Varnishes and Oil
Varnishes; Raw Materials: Resins, Solvents and Colouring Principles;
Drying Oils: their Properties, Applications and Preparation by both Hot
and Cold Processes; Manufacture, Employment and Testing of Different
Varnishes. Translated from the French of ACH. LIVACHE, Ingenieur Civil
des Mines. Greatly Extended and Adapted to English Practice, with
numerous Original Recipes. By JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH, Lecturer on Oils,
Colours and Varnishes, Regent Street Polytechnic. Twenty-seven
Illustrations. 400 pp. Demy 8vo. 1899. Price 12s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.

=Contents.=

I. Resins: Gum Resins, Oleo Resins and Balsams, Commercial Varieties,
Source, Collection, Characteristics, Chemical Properties, Physical
Properties, Hardness, Adulterations. Appropriate Solvents, Special
Treatment, Special Use.--II. Solvents: Natural, Artificial, Manufacture,
Storage, Special Use.--III. Colouring: Principles, (1) Vegetable, (2)
Coal Tar, (3) Coloured Resinates, (4) Coloured Oleates and
Linoleates.--Gum Running: Furnaces, Bridges, Flues, Chimney Shafts,
Melting Pots, Condensers, Boiling or Mixing Pans, Copper Vessels, Iron
Vessels (Cast), Iron Vessels (Wrought), Iron Vessels (Silvered), Iron
Vessels (Enamelled), Steam Superheated Plant, Hot-air Plant.--Spirit
Varnish Manufacture: Cold Solution Plant, Mechanical Agitators, Hot
Solution Plant, Jacketted Pans, Mechanical Agitators, Clarification and
Filtration, Bleaching Plant, Storage Plant.--Manufacture,
Characteristics and Uses of the Spirit Varnishes yielded by: Amber,
Copal, Dammar, Shellac, Mastic, Sandarac, Rosin, Asphalt, India Rubber,
Gutta Percha, Collodion, Celluloid, Resinates, Oleates.--Manufacture of
Varnish Stains.--Manufacture of Lacquers.--Manufacture of Spirit
Enamels.--Analysis of Spirit Varnishes.--Physical and Chemical Constants
of Resins. --Table of Solubility of Resins in different
Menstrua.--Systematic qualitative Analysis of Resins, Hirschop's
tables.--Drying Oils: Oil Crushing Plant, Oil Extraction Plant,
Individual Oils, Special Treatment of Linseed Oil, Poppyseed Oil, Walnut
Oil, Hempseed Oil, Llamant