 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 446 pages
...is placed in a vat containing a solution of carbonate of soda, where it is permitted to remain untu the whole becomes thoroughly saturated with the salt....pound of flax, thus treated, instead of being less in quantity than that of cotton, will bo considerably more — the difference varying according to... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1851 - 756 pages
...the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once changed from that of a damp rigid aggregation of flax to a light expansive...like leavening dough or an expanding sponge. This change was no less striking when this converted mass in its turn was placed in the next vessel, which... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1851 - 722 pages
...the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once changed from that of a damp rigid aggregation of flax to a light expansive...like leavening dough or an expanding sponge. This change was no less striking when this converted mass in its turn was placed in the next vessel, which... | |
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1751 - 206 pages
...the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once changed from that of a damp rigid aggregation of flax to a light expansive...size like leavening dough, or an expanding sponge. The change was no less striking when this converted mass in its turn was placed in the next vessel,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1851 - 606 pages
...the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once changed, from that of a damp rigid aggregation of flax to a light expansive...size like leavening dough, or an expanding sponge. The change was no less striking, when this converted mass in its turn was placed in the next vessel... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1851 - 552 pages
...the vessel containing the acidulated water, than its character became at once changed from that of a damp rigid aggregation of flax to a light expansive...size like leavening dough, or an expanding sponge. The change was no less striking when this converted mass in its turn was placed in the next vessel,... | |
 | 1851 - 560 pages
...the vessel containing the acidulated water, than its character became at once changed, from that of a damp rigid aggregation of flax to a light expansive...size like leavening dough, or an expanding sponge. The change was no less striking when this converted mass in its turn was placed in tlie next vessel,... | |
 | Robert Hunt - Great Exhibition - 1851 - 494 pages
...in the vessel containing acidulated water, than its character became at once changed from that of a damp rigid aggregation of flax to a light, expansive...size like leavening dough, or an expanding sponge. The change was no less striking when this converted mass, in its turn, was placed in the next vessel,... | |
 | Robert Hunt - Great Exhibition - 1851 - 492 pages
...in the vessel containing acidulated water, than its character became at once changed from that of a damp rigid aggregation of flax to a light, expansive...size like leavening dough, or an expanding sponge. The change was no less striking when this converted mass, in its turn, was placed in the next vessel,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1852 - 576 pages
...the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once changed from that of a damp, rigid aggregation of flax to a light, expansive...like leavening dough, or an expanding sponge. This change was no less striking when this converted mass, in its turn, was placed in the next vessel, which... | |
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The flax fibre, soaked in the solution of sub-carbonate of soda, was no sooner immersed in the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once changed from that of a damp, rigid aggregation of flax to a light, expansive mass of... 
