 With an unimportant exception, the candles are also made of what I beg to designate as vegetable stearine. When the candles, which are made by dipping, are of the required diameter, they receive a final dip into a mixture of the same material and insect-wax,...  American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 191851Full view - About this book
 | 1852 - 1000 pages
...candles, the quantity, consumed is very great. With an unimportant exception the candles are always made of what I beg to designate as vegetable stearine....preserved in the hottest weather. They are generally coloured red, which is done by throwing a minute quantity of alkanet root (Anchusa tinctoria, brought... | |
 | Botany - 1850 - 502 pages
...candles, the quantity consumed is very great. With an unimportant exception, the candles are always made of what I beg to designate as vegetable stearine....preserved in the hottest weather. They are generally coloured red, which is done by throwing a minute quantity of alkanet root (Ancliusa tinctorid), brought... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - China - 1851 - 586 pages
...unimportant exception, Chinese candles are made of what I beg to designate as vegetable stéarine. "When the candles, which are made by dipping, are...generally colored red, which is done by throwing a minute quantity of alkanet root (.Inchusa tinctnria, brought from Shantung) into the mixture. Verdigris is... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Patents - 1852 - 716 pages
...candles, the quantity consumed is very great. With an unimportant excepiion, the candles are always made of what I beg to designate as vegetable stearine....generally colored red, which is done by throwing a minute quantity of alkanet-root (Anchusatinctoria, brought from Shangtung) into the mixture. Verdigris is... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Patents - 1852 - 774 pages
...candles, the quantity consumed is very great. With an unimportant exception, the candles are always made of what I beg to designate as vegetable stearine....which their consistency is preserved in the hottest weither. They are generally colored red, which is done by throwing a minute quantity of alkanet-root... | |
 | Floriculture - 1852 - 252 pages
...consumed is very great. With an unimportant exception, the candles are always made of what I would designate as vegetable stearine. When the candles,...preserved in the hottest weather. They are generally coloured red, which is done by throwing a minute quantity of Alkanet root (Anchttsa tinctoria), brought... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botany - 1852 - 392 pages
...of the Stillingia sebifera. The wicks are made of rush coiled round a stem of a coarse grass ; when of the required diameter they receive a final dip...the same material and " Insect-wax," by which their consistence is preserved in the hottest weather. They are generally coloured red by a minute quantity... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1853 - 664 pages
...of the Stillingia sebifera. The wicks are made of rush coiled round a stem of a coarse grass; when of the required diameter they receive a final dip...the same material and " Insectwax," by which their consistence is preserved in the hottest weather. They are generally coloured red by a minute quantity... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1853 - 644 pages
...of the Stillingia sebifera. The wicks are made of rush coiled Hound a stem of a coarse grass; when of the required diameter they receive a final dip into a mixture of the same material and " Insectwtu," by which their consistence is preserved in the hottest weather. They are generally coloured... | |
 | Horticulture - 1855 - 382 pages
...consumed is very great. With an unimportant exception, the candles are always made of what I would designate as vegetable stearine. When the candles,...preserved in the hottest weather. They are generally coloured red, which is done by throwing a minute quantity of alkanet root (Anchusa tinctoria), brought... | |
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