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Alcoholometric

The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors.

Alloy

Gold and iron alloy with ease.

Bleach

The destruction of the coloring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid.

Combustible

All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common use go under the name of fuel.

Combustion

Combustion results in common cases from the mutual chemical action and reaction of the combustible and the oxygen of the atmosphere, whereby a new compound is formed.

Damaskeen

Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving.

Disinfect

When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect.

Fulguration

A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration.

Laminable

When a body can be readily extended in all directions under the hammer, it is said to be malleable; and when into fillets under the rolling press, it is said to be laminable.

Mine

Lead veins have been traced . . . but they have not been mined.

The principal ore mined there is the bituminous cinnabar.

Proof

Formerly, a very rude mode of ascertaining the strength of spirits was practiced, called the proof.

Table

A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an average nine pounds.