W.
Walnut,
162.
------ brown,
176,
182.
Washing of goods,
200.
Water blue,
37.
White indigo,
138.
Wince dye beck,
53,
54.
Woad,
138.
---- indigo vats,
139.
---- vat,
145.
Woaded black,
86.
Wool,
1.
---- action of acid on,
11.
---- alkalies, action of on,
9.
---- batching,
15.
---- black,
89.
---- ----- 6 B,
171,
180,
181,
186.
---- bleaching,
29.
---- --------- peroxide of hydrogen,
34.
---- --------- -------- of soda,
36.
---- --------- with sulphur,
30.
---- chemical composition of,
6.
---- chlorination of,
37.
---- blue B X,
153.
---- ---- dyeing with logwood,
161.
---- fibre under microscope,
2.
---- ----- unscoured,
10.
---- ----- chemical composition of,
7.
---- ----- scoured badly,
10.
---- ----- showing medullary centre,
4.
--- ----- heated with acid,
11.
---- grey R,
166.
Woollen piece goods, scouring of,
28.
------- yarn,
2.
Wool oil,
26.
Wool, physical properties of,
2.
---- -------- structure, variations in,
5.
Wool scouring,
15,
17.
---- -------- by solvents,
23.
Wool-washing machine,
20,
21.
Worsted yarn,
2.
Wringing of goods,
197.
Y.
Yarn-drying machine,
208.
Yarn, washing of, in hanks,
202.
Yarn wringing,
198.
Yellow,
125,
195.
------ brown,
161.
------ N,
125,
133,
134.
------ olive,
135.
------ shades on wool,
123.
Yolk,
7.
Yorkshire grease,
26.
Z.
Zambesi black B,
170,
181.
------- ----- D,
170,
180,
181.
------- ----- F,
171.
------- blue R A,
180,
181.
------- brown G,
171,
181.
------- ----- 2 G,
171.
------- dyes,
168.
Zinc dust,
141.
Agricultural Chemistry, 10.
Air, Industrial Use of, 12.
Alum and its Sulphates, 9.
Ammonia, 9.
Aniline Colours, 3.
Animal Fats, 6.
Anti-corrosive Paints, 4.
Architecture, Terms in, 30.
Architectural Pottery, 15.
Artificial Perfumes, 7.
Balsams, 10.
Bibliography, 32.
Bleaching, 23.
Bone Products, 8.
Bookbinding, 31.
Brick-making, 15,
16.
Burnishing Brass, 28.
Carpet Yarn Printing, 21.
Ceramic Books, 14,
15.
Charcoal, 8.
Chemical Essays, 9.
Chemistry of Pottery, 16.
Chemistry of Dye-stuffs, 23.
Clay Analysis, 16.
Coal-dust Firing, 26.
Colour Matching, 22.
Colliery Recovery Work, 25.
Colour-mixing for Dyers, 22.
Colour Theory, 22.
Combing Machines, 24.
Compounding Oils, 6.
Condensing Apparatus, 26.
Cosmetics, 8.
Cotton Dyeing, 23.
Cotton Spinning, 24.
Damask Weaving, 20.
Dampness in Buildings, 30.
Decorators' Books, 28.
Decorative Textiles, 20.
Dental Metallurgy, 25.
Dictionary of Paint Materials, 2.
Drying Oils, 5.
Drying with Air, 12.
Dyeing Marble, 31.
Dyeing Woollen Fabrics, 23.
Dyers' Materials, 22.
Dye-stuffs, 23.
Enamelling Metal, 18.
Enamels, 18.
Engraving, 31.
Essential Oils, 7.
Evaporating Apparatus, 26.
External Plumbing, 27.
Fats, 5, 6.
Faults in Woollen Goods, 21.
Gas Firing, 26.
Glass-making Recipes, 16.
Glass Painting, 17.
Glue Making and Testing, 8.
Greases, 5.
Hat Manufacturing, 20.
History of Staffs Potteries, 16.
Hops, 28.
Hot-water Supply, 28.
How to make a Woollen Mill Pay, 21.
India-rubber, 13.
Industrial Alcohol, 10.
Inks, 3, 11.
Iron-corrosion, 4.
Iron, Science of, 26.
Japanning, 28.
Lace-Making, 20.
Lacquering, 28.
Lake Pigments, 2.
Lead and its Compounds, 11.
Leather Industry, 13.
Leather-working Materials, 14.
Lithography, 31.
Lubricants, 5, 6.
Manures, 8, 10.
Mineral Pigments, 3.
Mine Ventilation, 25.
Mine Haulage, 25.
Oil and Colour Recipes, 3.
Oil Boiling, 5.
Oil Merchants' Manual, 7.
Oils, 5.
Ozone, Industrial Use of, 12.
Paint Manufacture, 2.
Paint Materials, 3.
Paint-material Testing, 4.
Paper-pulp Dyeing, 17.
Petroleum, 6.
Pigments, Chemistry of, 2.
Plumbers' Work, 27.
Porcelain Painting, 17.
Pottery Clays, 16.
Pottery Manufacture, 14.
Power-loom Weaving, 19.
Preserved Foods, 30.
Printers' Ready Reckoner, 31.
Printing Inks, 3.
Recipes for Oilmen, etc., 3.
Resins, 10.
Risks of Occupations, 11.
Riveting China, etc., 16.
Sanitary Plumbing, 27.
Sealing Waxes, 11.
Silk Dyeing, 22.
Silk Throwing, 18.
Smoke Prevention, 26.
Soaps, 7.
Spinning, 21.
Staining Marble, and Bone, 31.
Steam Drying, 12.
Sugar Refining, 32.
Steel Hardening, 26.
Sweetmeats, 30.
Terra-cotta, 15.
Testing Paint Materials, 4.
Testing Yarns, 20.
Textile Fabrics, 20.
Textile Materials, 19, 20.
Timber, 29.
Varnishes, 5.
Vegetable Fats, 7.
Waste Utilisation, 10.
Water, Industrial Use, 12.
Waterproofing Fabrics, 21.
Weaving Calculations, 21.
Wood Waste Utilisation, 29.
Wood Dyeing, 31.
Wool Dyeing, 22, 23.
Writing Inks, 11.
X-Ray Work, 13.
Yarn Testing, 20.
THE CHEMISTRY OF PIGMENTS. By Ernest J. Parry, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S., and J. H. Coste, F.I.C., F.C.S. Demy 8vo. Five Illustrations. 285 pp. Price 10s. 6d. net. (Post free, 10s. 10d. home; 11s. 3d. abroad.)
Contents.
Introductory. Light -- White Light -- The Spectrum -- The Invisible Spectrum -- Normal Spectrum -- Simple Nature of Pure Spectral Colour -- The Recomposition of White Light -- Primary and Complementary Colours -- Coloured Bodies -- Absorption Spectra -- The Application of Pigments. Uses of Pigments: Artistic, Decorative, Protective -- Methods of Application of Pigments: Pastels and Crayons, Water Colour, Tempera Painting, Fresco, Encaustic Painting, Oil-colour Painting, Keramic Art, Enamel, Stained and Painted Glass, Mosaic -- Inorganic Pigments. White Lead -- Zinc White -- Enamel White -- Whitening -- Red Lead -- Litharge -- Vermilion -- Royal Scarle t-- The Chromium Greens -- Chromates of Lead, Zinc, Silver and Mercury -- Brunswick Green -- The Ochres -- Indian Red -- Venetian Red -- Siennas and Umbers -- Light Red -- Cappagh Brown -- Red Oxides -- Mars Colours -- Terre Verte -- Prussian Brown -- Cobalt Colours -- Coeruleum -- Smalt -- Copper Pigments -- Malachite -- Bremen Green -- Scheele's Green -- Emerald Green -- Verdigris -- Brunswick Green -- Non-arsenical Greens -- Copper Blues -- Ultramarine -- Carbon Pigments -- Ivory Black -- Lamp Black -- Bistre -- Naples Yellow -- Arsenic Sulphides: Orpiment, Realgar -- Cadmium Yellow -- Vandyck Brown -- Organic Pigments. Prussian Blue -- Natural Lakes -- Cochineal -- Carmine -- Crimson -- Lac Dye -- Scarlet -- Madder -- Alizarin -- Campeachy -- Quercitron -- Rhamnus -- Brazil Wood -- Alkanet -- Santal Wood -- Archil -- Coal-tar Lakes -- Red Lakes -- Alizarin Compounds -- Orange and Yellow Lakes -- Green and Blue Lakes -- Indigo -- Dragon's Blood -- Gamboge -- Sepia -- Indian Yellow, Puree -- Bitumen, Asphaltum, Mummy -- Index.
THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINT. A Practical Handbook for Paint Manufacturers, Merchants and Painters. By J. Cruickshank Smith, B.Sc. Demy 8vo. 200 pp. Sixty Illustrations and One Large Diagram. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. abroad.)
Contents.
Preparation of Raw Material -- Storing of Raw Material -- Testing and Valuation of Raw Material -- Paint Plant and Machinery -- The Grinding of White Lead -- Grinding of White Zinc -- Grinding of other White Pigments -- Grinding of Oxide Paints -- Grinding of Staining Colours -- Grinding of Black Paints -- Grinding of Chemical Colours -- Yellows -- Grinding of Chemical Colours -- Blues -- Grinding Greens -- Grinding Reds -- Grinding Lakes -- Grinding Colours in Water -- Grinding Colours in Turpentine -- The Uses of Paint -- Testing and Matching Paints -- Economic Considerations -- Index.
DICTIONARY OF CHEMICALS AND RAW PRODUCTS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINTS, COLOURS, VARNISHES AND ALLIED PREPARATIONS. By George H. Hurst, F.C.S. Demy 8vo. 380 pp. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 8s. home; 8s. 6d. abroad.)
THE MANUFACTURE OF LAKE PIGMENTS FROM ARTIFICIAL COLOURS. By Francis H. Jennison, F.I.C., F.C.S. Sixteen Coloured Plates, showing Specimens of Eighty-nine Colours, specially prepared from the Recipes given in the Book. 136 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. abroad.)
Contents.
The Groups of the Artificial Colouring Matters -- The Nature and Manipulation of Artificial Colours -- Lake-forming Bodies for Acid Colours -- Lake-forming Bodies' Basic Colours -- Lake Bases -- The Principles of Lake Formation -- Red Lakes -- Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet and Black Lakes -- The Production of Insoluble Azo Colours in the Form of Pigments -- The General Properties of Lakes Produced from Artificial Colours -- Washing, Filtering and Finishing -- Matching and Testing Lake Pigments -- Index.
THE MANUFACTURE OF MINERAL AND LAKE PIGMENTS. Containing Directions for the Manufacture of all Artificial, Artists and Painters' Colours, Enamel, Soot and Metallic Pigments. A Text-book for Manufacturers, Merchants, Artists and Painters. By Dr. Josef Bersch. Translated by A. C. Wright, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Forty-three Illustrations. 476 pp., demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d. net. (Post free, 13s. home; 13s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents.
Introduction -- Physico-chemical Behaviour of Pigments -- Raw Materials Employed in the Manufacture of Pigments -- Assistant Materials -- Metallic Compounds -- The Manufacture of Mineral Pigments -- The Manufacture of White Lead -- Enamel White -- Washing Apparatus -- Zinc White -- Yellow Mineral Pigments -- Chrome Yellow -- Lead Oxide Pigments -- Other Yellow Pigments -- Mosaic Gold -- Red Mineral Pigments -- The Manufacture of Vermilion -- Antimony Vermilion -- Ferric Oxide Pigments -- Other Red Mineral Pigments -- Purple of Cassius -- Blue Mineral Pigments -- Ultramarine -- Manufacture of Ultramarine -- Blue Copper Pigments -- Blue Cobalt Pigments -- Smalts -- Green Mineral Pigments -- Emerald Green -- Verdigris -- Chromium Oxide -- Other Green Chromium Pigments -- Green Cobalt Pigments -- Green Manganese Pigments -- Compounded Green Pigments -- Violet Mineral Pigments -- Brown Mineral Pigments -- Brown Decomposition Products -- Black Pigments -- Manufacture of Soot Pigments -- Manufacture of Lamp Black -- The Manufacture of Soot Black without Chambers -- Indian Ink -- Enamel Colours -- Metallic Pigments -- Bronze Pigments -- Vegetable Bronze Pigments.
Pigments of Organic Origin -- Lakes -- Yellow Lakes -- Red Lakes -- Manufacture of Carmine -- The Colouring Matter of Lac -- Safflower or Carthamine Red -- Madder and its Colouring Matters -- Madder Lakes -- Manjit (Indian Madder) -- Lichen Colouring Matters -- Red Wood Lakes -- The Colouring Matters of Sandal Wood and Other Dye Woods -- Blue Lakes -- Indigo Carmine -- The Colouring Matter of Log Wood -- Green Lakes -- Brown Organic Pigments -- Sap Colours -- Water Colours -- Crayons -- Confectionery Colours -- The Preparation of Pigments for Painting -- The Examination of Pigments -- Examination of Lakes -- The Testing of Dye-Woods -- The Design of a Colour Works -- Commercial Names of Pigments -- Appendix: Conversion of Metric to English Weights and Measures -- Centigrade and Fahrenheit Thermometer Scales -- Index.
RECIPES FOR THE COLOUR, PAINT, VARNISH, OIL, SOAP AND DRYSALTERY TRADES. Compiled by An Analytical Chemist. 350 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 8s. home; 8s. 3d. abroad.)
Contents.
Pigments or Colours for Paints, Lithographic and Letterpress Printing Inks, etc. -- Mixed Paints and Preparations for Paint-making, Painting, Lime-washing, Paperhanging, etc. -- Varnishes for Coach-builders, Cabinetmakers, Wood-workers, Metal-workers, Photographers, etc. -- Soaps for Toilet, Cleansing, Polishing, etc. -- Perfumes -- Lubricating Greases, Oils, etc. -- Cements, Pastes, Glues and Other Adhesive Preparations -- Writing, Marking, Endorsing and Other Inks -- Sealing-wax and Office Requisites -- Preparations for the Laundry, Kitchen, Stable and General Household Uses -- Disinfectant Preparations -- Miscellaneous Preparations -- Index.
OIL COLOURS AND PRINTERS' INKS. By Louis Edgar Andés. Translated from the German. 215 pp. Crown 8vo. 56 Illustrations. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 4d. home; 5s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents.
Linseed Oil -- Poppy Oil -- Mechanical Purification of Linseed Oil -- Chemical Purification of Linseed Oil -- Bleaching Linseed Oil -- Oxidizing Agents for Boiling Linseed Oil -- Theory of Oil Boiling -- Manufacture of Boiled Oil -- Adulterations of Boiled Oil -- Chinese Drying Oil and Other Specialities -- Pigments for House and Artistic Painting and Inks -- Pigment for Printers' Black Inks -- Substitutes for Lampblack -- Machinery for Colour Grinding and Rubbing -- Machines for mixing Pigments with the Vehicle -- Paint Mills -- Manufacture of House Oil Paints -- Ship Paints -- Luminous Paint -- Artists' Colours -- Printers' Inks: -- VEHICLES -- Printers' Inks: -- PIGMENTS and MANUFACTURE -- Index.
(See also Writing Inks.)
THREE HUNDRED SHADES FOR DECORATORS AND HOW TO MIX THEM.
(See page 28.)
CASEIN. By Robert Scherer. Translated from the German by Chas. Salter. Demy 8vo. Illustrated. 160 pp. Price 7s. 6d. net, (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. abroad.)
Contents.
Casein: its Origin, Preparation and Properties. Various Methods of Preparing Casein. Composition and Properties of Casein. Casein Paints. -- "Marble-Lime" Colour for Outside Work -- Casein Enamel Paint -- Casein Façade Paint -- Cold-Water Paint in Powder Form -- Kistory's Recipe for Casein Paint and Varnish -- Pure Casein Paints for Walls, etc. -- Casein Paints for Woodwork and Iron -- Casein-Silicate Paints -- Milk Paints -- Casein-Silicate Paint Recipes -- Trojel's Boiled Oil Substitute -- Calsomine Wash -- Quick-Drying Casein Paint -- Boiled Oil Substitute -- Ring's Cold-Water Paint -- Formo-lactin -- Waterproof Paint for Playing Cards -- Casein Colour Lake -- Casein-Cement Paint. The Technics of Casein Painting. Casein Adhesives and Putties. -- Casein Glue in Plates or Flakes -- Jeromin's Casein Adhesive -- Hall's Casein Glue -- Waterproof Glue -- Liquid Casein Glue -- Casein and Borax Glue -- Solid Casein Adhesive -- Casein Solution -- Glue Powder -- Casein Putties -- Washable Cement for Deal Boards -- Wenk's Casein Cement -- Casein and Lime Cement "Pitch Barm" -- Casein Stopping -- Casein Cement for Stone. The Preparation of Plastic Masses from Casein. -- Imitation Ivory -- Anti-Radiation and Anti-Corrosive Composition -- Dickmann's Covering for Floors and Walls -- Imitation Linoleum -- Imitation Leather -- Imitation Bone -- Plastic Mass of Keratin and Casein -- Insulating Mass -- Plastic Casein Masses -- Horny Casein Mass -- Plastic Mass from Celluloid -- Casein Cellulose Composition -- Fire-proof Cellulose Substitute -- Nitrocellulose and Casein Composition -- Franquet's Celluloid Substitute -- Galalith. Uses of Casein in the Textile Industry, for Finishing Colour Printing, etc. -- Caseogum -- "Glutin" -- Casein Dressing for Linen and Cotton Fabrics -- Printing Colour with Metallic Lustre -- Process for Softening, Sizing and Loading -- Fixing Casein and Other Albuminoids on the Fibre -- Fixing Insoluble Colouring Matters -- Waterproofing and Softening Dressing -- Casein for Mercerising Crèpe -- Fixing Zinc White on Cotton with Formaldehyde -- Casein-Magnesia -- Casein Medium for Calico Printing -- Loading Silk. Casein Foodstuffs. -- Casein Food -- Synthetic Milk -- Milk Food -- Emulsifiable Casein -- Casein Phosphate for Baking -- Making Bread, Low in Carbohydrates, from Flour and Curd -- Preparing Soluble Casein Compounds with Citrates -- Casein Food. Sundry Applications of Casein. -- Uses of Casein in the Paper Industry -- Metachromotype Paper -- Sizing Paper with Casein -- Waterproofing Paper -- Casein Solution for Coating Paper -- Horn's Clear Solution of Casein -- Water- and Fire-proof Asbestos Paper and Board -- Paper Flasks, etc., for Oils and Fats -- Washable Drawing and Writing Paper--Paper Wrappering for Food, Clothing, etc. -- Paint Remover -- Casein Photographic Plates -- Wood-Cement Roofing Pulp -- Cask Glaze of Casein and Formaldehyde -- Artists' Canvas -- Solidifying Mineral Oils -- Uses of Casein in Photography -- Casein Ointment -- Clarifying Glue with Casein -- Casein in Soap-making -- Casein-Albumose Soap -- Casein in Sheets, Blocks, etc. -- Waterproof Casein.
SIMPLE METHODS FOR TESTING PAINTERS' MATERIALS. By A. C. Wright, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Crown 8vo. 160 pp. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 3d. home; 5s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents. Necessity for Testing -- Standards -- Arrangement -- The Apparatus -- The Reagents -- Practical Tests -- Dry Colours -- Stiff Paints -- Liquid and Enamel Paints -- Oil Varnishes -- Spirit Varnishes -- Driers -- Putty -- Linseed Oil -- Turpentine -- Water Stains -- The Chemical Examination -- Dry Colours and Paints -- White Pigments and Paints -- Yellow Pigments and Paints -- Blue Pigments and Paints -- Green Pigments and Paints -- Red Pigments and Paints -- Brown Pigments and Paints -- Black Pigments and Paints -- Oil Varnishes -- Linseed Oil -- Turpentine.
IRON-CORROSION, ANTI-FOULING AND ANTI-CORROSIVE PAINTS. Translated from the German of Louis Edgar Andés. Sixty-two Illustrations. 275 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net. (Post free, 10s. 10d. home; 11s. 3d. abroad.)
Contents.
Iron-rust and its Formation -- Protection from Rusting by Paint -- Grounding the Iron with Linseed Oil, etc. -- Testing Paints -- Use of Tar for Painting on Iron -- Anti-corrosive Paints -- Linseed Varnish -- Chinese Wood Oil -- Lead Pigments -- Iron Pigments -- Artificial Iron Oxides -- Carbon -- Preparation of Anti-corrosive Paints -- Results of Examination of Several Anti-corrosive Paints -- Paints for Ship's Bottoms -- Anti-fouling Compositions -- Various Anti-corrosive and Ship's Paints -- Official Standard Specifications for Ironwork Paints -- Index.
THE TESTING AND VALUATION OF RAW MATERIALS USED IN PAINT AND COLOUR MANUFACTURE. By M. W. Jones, F.C.S. A Book for the Laboratories of Colour Works. 88 pp. Crown 8vo. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 3d. home and abroad.)
Aluminium Compounds -- China Clay -- Iron Compounds -- Potassium Compounds -- Sodium Compounds -- Ammonium Hydrate -- Acids -- Chromium Compounds -- Tin Compounds -- Copper Compounds -- Lead Compounds -- Zinc Compounds -- Manganese Compounds -- Arsenic Compounds -- Antimony Compounds -- Calcium Compounds -- Barium Compounds -- Cadmium Compounds -- Mercury Compounds -- Ultramarine -- Cobalt and Carbon Compounds -- Oils -- Index.
STUDENTS' HANDBOOK OF PAINTS, COLOURS, OILS AND VARNISHES. By John Furnell. Crown 8vo. 12 Illustrations. 96 pp. Price 2s. 6d. net. (Post free, 2s. 9d. home and abroad.)
Contents.
Plant -- Chromes -- Blues -- Greens -- Earth Colours -- Blacks -- Reds -- Lakes -- Whites -- Painters' Oils -- Turpentine -- Oil Varnishes -- Spirit Varnishes -- Liquid Paints -- Enamel Paints.
OIL CRUSHING, REFINING AND BOILING, THE MANUFACTURE OF LINOLEUM, PRINTING AND LITHOGRAPHIC INKS, AND INDIA-RUBBER SUBSTITUTES. By John Geddes McIntosh. Being Volume I. of the Second, greatly enlarged, English Edition, in three Volumes, of "The Manufacture of Varnishes and Kindred Industries," based on and including the work of Ach. Livache. Demy 8vo. 150 pp. 29 Illustrations. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. abroad.)
Contents.
Oil Crushing and Refining; Oil Boiling -- Theoretical and Practical; Linoleum Manufacture; Printing Ink Manufacture; Rubber Substitutes; The Manufacture of Driers; The Detection of Adulteration in Linseed and other Drying Oils by Chemical, Physical and Organoleptic Methods.
DRYING OILS, BOILED OIL AND SOLID AND LIQUID DRIERS. By L. E. Andés. Expressly Written for this Series of Special Technical Books, and the Publishers hold the Copyright for English and Foreign Editions. Forty-two Illustrations. 342 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d. net. (Post free, 13s. home; 13s. 3d. abroad.)
Contents.
Properties of the Drying Oils; Cause of the Drying Property; Absorption of Oxygen; Behaviour towards Metallic Oxides, etc. -- The Properties of and Methods for obtaining the Drying Oils -- Production of the Drying Oils by Expression and Extraction; Refining and Bleaching; Oil Cakes and Meal; The Refining and Bleaching of the Drying Oils; The Bleaching of Linseed Oil -- The Manufacture of Boiled Oil; The Preparation of Drying Oils for Use in the Grinding of Paints and Artists' Colours and in the Manufacture of Varnishes by Heating over a Fire or by Steam, by the Cold Process, by the Action of Air, and by Means of the Electric Current; The Driers used in Boiling Linseed Oil; The Manufacture of Boiled Oil and the Apparatus therefor; Livache's Process for Preparing a Good Drying Oil and its Practical Application -- The Preparation of Varnishes for Letterpress, Lithographic and Copperplate Printing, for Oilcloth and Waterproof Fabrics; The Manufacture of Thickened Linseed Oil, Burnt Oil, Stand Oil by Fire Heat, Superheated Steam, and by a Current of Air -- Behaviour of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oils towards Atmospheric Influences, Water, Acids and Alkalies -- Boiled Oil Substitutes -- The Manufacture of Solid and Liquid Driers from Linseed Oil and Rosin; Linolic Acid Compounds of the Driers -- The Adulteration and Examination of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oil.
LUBRICATING OILS, FATS AND GREASES: Their Origin, Preparation, Properties, Uses and Analyses. A Handbook for Oil Manufacturers, Refiners and Merchants, and the Oil and Fat Industry in General. By George H. Hurst, F.C.S. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. Sixty-five Illustrations. 317 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net. (Post free, 11s. home; 11s. 3d. abroad.)
Contents.
Introductory -- Hydrocarbon Oils -- Scotch Shale Oils -- Petroleum -- Vegetable and Animal Oils -- Testing and Adulteration of Oils -- Lubricating Greases -- Lubrication -- Appendices -- Index.
TECHNOLOGY OF PETROLEUM: Oil Fields of the World -- Their History, Geography and Geology -- Annual Production and Development -- Oil-well Drilling -- Transport. By Henry Neuberger and Henry Noalhat. Translated from the French by J. G. McIntosh. 550 pp. 153 Illustrations. 26 Plates. Super Royal 8vo. Price 21s. net. (Post free, 21s. 9d. home; 23s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents.
Study of the Petroliferous Strata.
Excavations--Hand Excavation or Hand Digging of Oil Wells.
Methods of Boring.
Accidents -- Boring Accidents -- Methods of preventing them -- Methods of remedying them -- Explosives and the use of the "Torpedo" Levigation -- Storing and Transport of Petroleum -- General Advice -- Prospecting, Management and carrying on of Petroleum Boring Operations.
General Data -- Customary Formulæ -- Memento. Practical Part. General Data bearing on Petroleum -- Glossary of Technical Terms used in the Petroleum Industry -- Copious Index.
THE PRACTICAL COMPOUNDING OF OILS, TALLOW AND GREASE FOR LUBRICATION, ETC. By An Expert Oil Refiner. 100 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free. 7s. 10d. home; 8s. abroad.)
Contents.
Introductory Remarks on the General Nomenclature of Oils, Tallow and Greases suitable for Lubrication -- Hydrocarbon Oils -- Animal and Fish Oils -- Compound Oils -- Vegetable Oils -- Lamp Oils -- Engine Tallow, Solidified Oils and Petroleum Jelly -- Machinery Greases: Loco and Anti-friction -- Clarifying and Utilisation of Waste Fats, Oils, Tank Bottoms, Drainings of Barrels and Drums, Pickings Up, Dregs, etc. -- The Fixing and Cleaning of Oil Tanks, etc. -- Appendix and General Information.
ANIMAL FATS AND OILS: Their Practical Production, Purification and Uses for a great Variety of Purposes. Their Properties, Falsification and Examination. Translated from the German of Louis Edgar Andés. Sixty-two Illustrations. 240 pp. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net. (Post free, 10s. 10d. home; 11s. 3d. abroad.)
Contents.
Introduction -- Occurrence, Origin, Properties and Chemical Constitution of Animal Fats -- Preparation of Animal Fats and Oils -- Machinery -- Tallow-melting Plant -- Extraction Plant -- Presses -- Filtering Apparatus -- Butter: Raw Material and Preparation, Properties, Adulterations, Beef Lard or Remelted Butter, Testing -- Candle-fish Oil -- Mutton-Tallow -- Hare Fat -- Goose Fat -- Neatsfoot Oil -- Bone Fat: Bone Boiling, Steaming Bones, Extraction, Refining -- Bone Oil -- Artificial Butter: Oleomargarine, Margarine Manufacture in France, Grasso's Process, "Kaiser's Butter," Jahr & Münzberg's Method, Filbert's Process, Winter's Method -- Human Fat -- Horse Fat -- Beef Marrow -- Turtle Oil -- Hog's Lard: Raw Material -- Preparation, Properties, Adulterations, Examination -- Lard Oil -- Fish Oils -- Liver Oils -- Artificial Train Oil -- Wool Fat: Properties, Purified Wool Fat -- Spermaceti: Examination of Fats and Oils in General.
THE MANUFACTURE OF LUBRICANTS, SHOE POLISHES AND LEATHER DRESSINGS. By Richard Brunner. Translated from the Sixth German Edition by Chas. Salter. 10 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 170 pp. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. abroad.)
Contents.
The Manufacture of Lubricants and Greases -- Properties of the Bodies used as Lubricants -- Raw Materials for Lubricants -- Solid Lubricants -- Tallow Lubricants -- Palm Oil Greases -- Lead Soap Lubricants -- True Soap Greases -- Caoutchouc Lubricants -- Other Solid Lubricants -- Liquid Lubricants -- Lubricating Oils in General -- Refining Oils for Lubricating Purposes -- Cohesion Oils -- Resin Oils -- Lubricants of Fat and Resin Oil -- Neatsfoot Oil -- Bone Fat -- Lubricants for Special Purposes -- Mineral Lubricating Oils -- Clockmakers' and Sewing Machine Oils -- The Application of Lubricants to Machinery -- Removing Thickened Grease and Oil -- Cleaning Oil Rags and Cotton Waste -- The Use of Lubricants -- Shoe Polishes and Leather Softening Preparations -- The Manufacture of Shoe Polishes and Preparations for Varnishing and Softening Leather -- The Preparation of Bone Black -- Blacking and Shoe Polishes -- Leather Varnishes -- Leather Softening Preparations -- The Manufacture of Dégras.
THE OIL MERCHANTS' MANUAL AND OIL TRADE READY RECKONER. Compiled by Frank P. Sherriff. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Demy 8vo. 214 pp. 1904. With Two Sheets of Tables. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. 3d. abroad.)
Contents.
Trade Terms and Customs -- Tables to Ascertain Value of Oil sold per cwt. or ton -- Specific Gravity Tables -- Percentage Tare Tables -- Petroleum Tables -- Paraffine and Benzoline Calculations -- Customary Drafts -- Tables for Calculating Allowance for Dirt, Water, etc. -- Capacity of Circular Tanks Tables, etc., etc.
VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS: Their Practical Preparation. Purification and Employment for Various Purposes, their Properties, Adulteration and Examination. Translated from the German of Louis Edgar Andés. Ninety-four Illustrations. 340 pp. Second Edition. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net. (Post free, 11s. home; 11s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents.
General Properties -- Estimation of the Amount of Oil in Seeds -- The Preparation of Vegetable Fats and Oils -- Apparatus for Grinding Oil Seeds and Fruits -- Installation of Oil and Fat Works -- Extraction Method of Obtaining Oils and Fats -- Oil Extraction Installations -- Press Moulds -- Non-drying Vegetable Oils -- Vegetable drying Oils -- Solid Vegetable Fats -- Fruits Yielding Oils and Fats -- Wool-softening Oils -- Soluble Oils -- Treatment of the Oil after Leaving the Press -- Improved Methods of Refining -- Bleaching Fats and Oils -- Practical Experiments on the Treatment of Oils with regard to Refining and Bleaching -- Testing Oils and Fats.
THE CHEMISTRY OF ESSENTIAL OILS AND ARTIFICIAL PERFUMES. By Ernest J. Parry, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S. 411 pp. 20 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d. net. (Post free, 13s. home; 13s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents.
The General Properties of Essential Oils -- Compounds occurring in Essential Oils -- The Preparation of Essential Oils -- The Analysis of Essential Oils -- Systematic Study of the Essential Oils -- Terpeneless Oils -- The Chemistry of Artificial Perfumes -- Appendix: Table of Constants -- Index.
SOAPS. A Practical Manual of the Manufacture of Domestic, Toilet and other Soaps. By George H. Hurst, F.C.S. 390 pp. 66 Illustrations. Price 12s. 6d. net. (Post free, 13s. home; 13s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents.
Introductory -- Soap-maker's Alkalies -- Soap Fats and Oils -- Perfumes -- Water as a Soap Material -- Soap Machinery -- Technology of Soap-making -- Glycerine in Soap Lyes -- Laying out a Soap Factory -- Soap Analysis -- Appendices.
TEXTILE SOAPS AND OILS. Handbook on the Preparation, Properties and Analysis of the Soaps and Oils used in Textile Manufacturing, Dyeing and Printing. By George H. Hurst, F.C.S. Crown 8vo. 195 pp. 1904. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 4d. home; 5s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents.
Methods of Making Soaps -- Hard Soap -- Soft Soap. Special Textile Soaps -- Wool Soaps -- Calico Printers' Soaps -- Dyers' Soaps. Relation of Soap to Water for Industrial Purposes -- Treating Waste Soap Liquors -- Boiled Off Liquor -- Calico Printers and Dyers' Soap Liquors -- Soap Analysis -- Fat in Soap.
ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS AND FATS -- Tallow -- Lard -- Bone Grease-Tallow Oil. Vegetable Soap, Oils and Fats -- Palm Oil -- Coco-nut Oil -- Olive Oil -- Cottonseed Oil -- Linseed Oil -- Castor Oil -- Corn Oil -- Whale Oil or Train Oil -- Repe Oil.
GLYCERINE.
TEXTILE OILS -- Oleic Acid -- Blended Wool Oils -- Oils for Cotton Dyeing, Printing and Finishing -- Turkey Red Oil -- Alizarine Oil -- Oleine -- Oxy Turkey Red Oils -- Soluble Oil-Analysis of Turkey Red Oil -- Finisher's Soluble Oil -- Finisher's Soap Softening -- Testing and Adulteration of Oils -- Index.
COSMETICS: MANUFACTURE, EMPLOYMENT AND TESTING OF ALL COSMETIC MATERIALS AND COSMETIC SPECIALITIES. Translated from the German of Dr. Theodor Koller. Crown 8vo. 262 pp. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 4d. home; 5s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents.
Purposes and Uses of, and Ingredients used in the Preparation of Cosmetics -- Preparation of Perfumes by Pressure, Distillation, Maceration, Absorption or Enfleurage, and Extraction Methods -- Chemical and Animal Products used in the Preparation of Cosmetics -- Oils and Fats used in the Preparation of Cosmetics -- General Cosmetic Preparations -- Mouth Washes and Tooth Pastes -- Hair Dyes, Hair Restorers and Depilatories -- Cosmetic Adjuncts and Specialities -- Colouring Cosmetic Preparations -- Antiseptic Washes and Soaps -- Toilet and Hygienic Soaps -- Secret Preparations for Skin, Complexion, Teeth, Mouth, etc. -- Testing and Examining the Materials Employed in the Manufacture of Cosmetics -- Index.
GLUE AND GLUE TESTING. By Samuel Rideal, D.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C. Fourteen Engravings. 144 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net. (Post free, 10s. 10d. home; 11s. abroad.)
Contents.
Constitution and Properties: Definitions and Sources, Gelatine, Chondrin and Allied Bodies, Physical and Chemical Properties, Classification, Grades and Commercial Varieties -- Raw Materials and Manufacture: Glue Stock, Lining, Extraction, Washing and Clarifying, Filter Presses, Water Supply, Use of Alkalies, Action of Bacteria and of Antiseptics, Various Processes, Cleansing, Forming, Drying, Crushing, etc., Secondary Products -- Uses of Glue: Selection and Preparation for Use, Carpentry, Veneering, Paper-Making, Bookbinding, Printing Rollers, Hectographs, Match Manufacture, Sandpaper, etc., Substitutes for other Materials, Artificial Leather and Caoutchouc -- Gelatine: General Characters, Liquid Gelatine, Photographic Uses, Size, Tanno-, Chrome and Formo-Gelatine, Artificial Silk, Cements, Pneumatic Tyres, Culinary, Meat Extracts, Isinglass, Medicinal and other Uses, Bacteriology -- Glue Testing: Review of Processes, Chemical Examination, Adulteration, Physical Tests, Valuation of Raw Materials -- Commercial Aspects.
BONE PRODUCTS AND MANURES: An Account of the most recent Improvements in the Manufacture of Fat, Glue, Animal Charcoal, Size, Gelatine and Manures. By Thomas Lambert, Technical and Consulting Chemist. Illustrated by Twenty-one Plans and Diagrams. 162 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. abroad.)
Contents.
Chemical Composition of Bones -- Arrangement of Factory -- Properties of Glue -- Glutin and Chondrin -- Skin Glue -- Liming of Skins -- Washing -- Boiling of Skins -- Clarification of Glue Liquors -- Glue-Boiling and Clarifying-House -- Specification of a Glue -- Size -- Uses and Preparation and Composition of Size -- Concentrated Size -- Properties of Gelatine -- Preparation of Skin Gelatine -- Drying -- Bone Gelatine -- Selecting Bones -- Crushing -- Dissolving -- Bleaching -- Boiling -- Properties of Glutin and Chondrin -- Testing of Glues and Gelatines -- The Uses of Glue, Gelatine and Size in Various Trades -- Soluble and Liquid Glues -- Steam and Waterproof Glues -- Manures -- Importation of Food Stuffs -- Soils -- Germination -- Plant Life -- Natural Manures -- Water and Nitrogen in Farmyard Manure -- Full Analysis of Farmyard Manure -- Action on Crops -- Water-Closet System -- Sewage Manure -- Green Manures -- Artificial Manures -- Mineral Manures -- Nitrogenous Matters -- Shoddy -- Hoofs and Horns -- Leather Waste -- Dried Meat -- Dried Blood -- Superphosphates -- Composition -- Manufacture -- Common Raw Bones -- Degreased Bones -- Crude Fat -- Refined Fat -- Degelatinised Bones -- Animal Charcoal -- Bone Superphosphates -- Guanos -- Dried Animal Products -- Potash Compounds -- Sulphate of Ammonia -- Extraction in Vacuo -- French and British Gelatines compared -- Index.
REISSUE OF CHEMICAL ESSAYS OF C. W. SCHEELE. First Published in English in 1786. Translated from the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, with Additions. 300 pp. Demy 8vo, Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 6d. home; 5s. 9d. abroad.)
Contents.
Memoir: C. W. Scheele and his work (written for this edition by J. G. McIntosh) -- On Fluor Mineral and its Acid -- On Fluor Mineral -- Chemical Investigation of Fluor Acid, with a View to the Earth which it Yields, by Mr. Wiegler -- Additional Information Concerning Fluor Minerals -- On Manganese, Magnesium, or Magnesia Vitrariorum -- On Arsenic and its Acid -- Remarks upon Salts of Benzoin--On Silex, Clay and Alum -- Analysis of the Calculus Vesical -- Method of Preparing Mercurius Dulcis Via Humida -- Cheaper and more Convenient Method of Preparing Pulvis Algarothi -- Experiments upon Molybdæna -- Experiments on Plumbago -- Method of Preparing a New Green Colour -- Of the Decomposition of Neutral Salts by Unslaked Lime and Iron -- On the Quantity of Pure Air which is Daily Present in our Atmosphere -- On Milk and its Acid -- On the Acid of Saccharum Lactis -- On the Constituent Parts of Lapis Ponderosus or Tungsten -- Experiments and Observations on Ether -- Index.
THE MANUFACTURE OF ALUM AND THE SULPHATES AND OTHER SALTS OF ALUMINA AND IRON. Their Uses and Applications as Mordants in Dyeing and Calico Printing, and their other Applications in the Arts, Manufactures, Sanitary Engineering, Agriculture and Horticulture. Translated from the French of Lucien Geschwind. 195 Illustrations. 400 pp. Royal 8vo. Price 12s. 6d. net. (Post free, 13s. home; 13s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents.
Theoretical Study of Aluminium, Iron, and Compounds of these Metals -- Aluminium and its Compounds -- Iron and Iron Compounds.
Manufacture of Aluminium Sulphates and Sulphates of Iron -- Manufacture of Aluminium Sulphate and the Alums -- Manufacture of Sulphates of Iron.
Uses of the Sulphates of Aluminium and Iron -- Uses of Aluminium Sulphate and Alums -- Application to Wool and Silk -- Preparing and using Aluminium Acetates -- Employment of Aluminium Sulphate in Carbonising Wool -- The Manufacture of Lake Pigments -- Manufacture of Prussian Blue -- Hide and Leather Industry -- Paper Making -- Hardening Plaster -- Lime Washes -- Preparation of Non-inflammable Wood, etc. -- Purification of Waste Waters. -- Uses and Applications of Ferrous Sulphate and Ferric Sulphates -- Dyeing -- Manufacture of Pigments -- Writing Inks -- Purification of Lighting Gas -- Agriculture -- Cotton Dyeing -- Disinfectant -- Purifying Waste Liquors -- Manufacture of Nordhausen Sulphuric Acid -- Fertilising.
Chemical Characteristics of Iron and Aluminium -- Analysis of Various Aluminous or Ferruginous Products -- Aluminium -- Analysing Aluminium Products --Alunite Alumina -- Sodium Aluminate -- Aluminium Sulphate -- Iron -- Analytical Characteristics of Iron Salts -- Analysis of Pyritic Lignite -- Ferrous and Ferric Sulphates -- Rouil Mordant -- Index.
AMMONIA AND ITS COMPOUNDS: Their Manufacture and Uses. By Camille Vincent, Professor at the Central School of Arts and Manufactures, Paris. Translated from the French by M. J. Salter. Royal 8vo. 114 pp. Thirty-two Illustrations. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 4d. home; 5s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents.
General Considerations: Various Sources of Ammoniacal Products; Human Urine as a Source of Ammonia -- Extraction of Ammoniacal Products from Sewage -- Extraction of Ammonia from Gas Liquor -- Manufacture of Ammoniacal Compounds from Bones, Nitrogenous Waste, Beetroot Wash and Peat -- Manufacture of Caustic Ammonia, and Ammonium Chloride, Phosphate and Carbonate -- Recovery of Ammonia from the Ammonia-Soda Mother Liquors -- Index.
INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL. A Practical Manual on the Production and Use of Alcohol for Industrial Purposes and for Use as a Heating Agent, as an Illuminant and as a Source of Motive Power. By J. G. M'Intosh, Lecturer on Manufacture and Applications of Industrial Alcohol at The Polytechnic, Regent Street, London. Demy 8vo. 1907. 250 pp. With 75 Illustrations and 25 Tables. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 9d. home; 8s. abroad.)
Contents.
Alcohol and its Properties. -- Ethylic Alcohol -- Absolute Alcohol -- Adulterations -- Properties of Alcohol -- Fractional Distillation -- Destructive Distillation -- Products of Combustion -- Alcoholometry -- Proof Spirit -- Analysis of Alcohol -- Table showing Correspondence between the Specific Gravity and Per Cents. of Alcohol over and under Proof -- Other Alcohol Tables. Continuous Aseptic and Antiseptic Fermentation and Sterilisation in Industrial Alcohol Manufacture. The Manufacture of Industrial Alcohol from Beets. -- Beet Slicing Machines -- Extraction of Beet Juice by Maceration, by Diffusion -- Fermentation in Beet Distilleries -- Plans of Modern Beet Distillery, The Manufacture of Industrial Alcohol from Grain. -- Plan of Modern Grain Distillery. The Manufacture of Industrial Alcohol from Potatoes. The Manufacture of Industrial Alcohol from Surplus Stocks of Wine, Spoilt Wine, Wine Marcs, and from Fruit in General. The Manufacture of Alcohol from the Sugar Cane and Sugar Cane Molasses -- Plans. Plant, etc., for the Distillation and Rectification of Industrial Alcohol. -- The Caffey and other "Patent" Stills -- Intermittent versus Continuous Rectification -- Continuous Distillation -- Rectification of Spent Wash. The Manufacture and Uses of Various Alcohol Derivatives, Ether, Haloid Ethers, Compound Ethers, Chloroform -- Methyl and Amyl Alcohols and their Ethereal Salts, Acetone -- Barbet's Ether, Methyl Alcohol and Acetone Rectifying Stills. The Uses of Alcohol in Manufactures, etc. -- List of Industries in which Alcohol is used, with Key to Function of Alcohol in each Industry. The Uses of Alcohol for Lighting, Heating, and Motive Power.
ANALYSIS OF RESINS AND BALSAMS. Translated from the German of Dr. Karl Dieterich. Demy 8vo. 340 pp. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. 3d. abroad.)
MANUAL OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. By Herbert Ingle, F.I.C., Lecturer on Agricultural Chemistry, the Yorkshire College; Lecturer in the Victoria University. 388 pp. 11 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 8s. home; 8s. 6d. abroad.)
Contents.
Introduction -- The Atmosphere -- The Soil -- The Reactions occurring in Soils -- The Analysis of Soils -- Manures, Natural -- Manures (continued) -- The Analysis of Manures -- The Constituents of Plants -- The Plant -- Crops -- The Animal -- Foods and Feeding -- Milk and Milk Products -- The Analysis of Milk and Milk Products -- Miscellaneous Products used in Agriculture -- Appendix -- Index.
THE UTILISATION OF WASTE PRODUCTS. A Treatise on the Rational Utilisation, Recovery and Treatment of Waste Products of all kinds. By Dr. Theodor Koller. Translated from the Second Revised German Edition. Twenty-two Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 280 pp. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. 3d. abroad.)
Contents.
The Waste of Towns -- Ammonia and Sal-Ammoniac -- Rational Processes for Obtaining these Substances by Treating Residues and Waste -- Residues in the Manufacture of Aniline Dyes -- Amber Waste -- Brewers' Waste -- Blood and Slaughter-House Refuse -- Manufactured Fuels -- Waste Paper and Bookbinders' Waste -- Iron Slags -- Excrement -- Colouring Matters from Waste -- Dyers' Waste Waters -- Fat from Waste -- Fish Waste -- Calamine Sludge -- Tannery Waste -- Gold and Silver Waste -- India-rubber and Caoutchouc Waste -- Residues in the Manufacture of Rosin Oil -- Wood Waste -- Horn Waste -- Infusorial Earth -- Iridium from Goldsmiths' Sweepings -- Jute Waste -- Cork Waste -- Leather Waste -- Glue Makers' Waste -- Illuminating Gas from Waste and the By-Products of the Manufacture of Coal Gas -- Meerschum -- Molasses--Metal Waste -- By-Products in the Manufacture of Mineral Waters -- Fruit -- The By-Products of Paper and Paper Pulp Works -- By-Products in the Treatment of Coal Tar Oils -- Fur Waste -- The Waste Matter in the Manufacture of Parchment Paper -- Mother of Pearl Waste -- Petroleum Residues -- Platinum Residues -- Broken Porcelain, Earthenware and Glass -- Salt Waste -- Slate Waste -- Sulphur -- Burnt Pyrites -- Silk Waste -- Soap Makers' Waste -- Alkali Waste and the Recovery of Soda--Waste Produced in Grinding Mirrors -- Waste Products in the Manufacture of Starch -- Stearic Acid -- Vegetable Ivory Waste -- Turf -- Waste Waters of Cloth Factories -- Wine Residues -- Tinplate Waste -- Wool Waste -- Wool Sweat -- The Waste Liquids from Sugar Works -- Index.