A putty made with powdered chalk and the white of egg is recommended for small animals, though a mixture of sugar of lead and burnt alum with the albumen is preferred by others.
With this view the application of water, either warm or cold, rendered astringent by the addition of alum or sugar of lead, will be beneficial.
If granulating (filling up) too fast, use burnt alum or air-slaked lime.
A severe blister should be applied behind and under the jaw; the mouth is to be frequently swabbed out with alum or chlorate of potash, 1 ounce to a pint of water, by means of a sponge fastened to the end of a stick.
Aluminum acetate is an efficient and cheap antiseptic, and is composed of 1 part alum and 5 parts acetate of lead, mixed in 20 parts of water.
Washings with lead andalum water are useful and may be repeated several times each day.
This effect is produced slowly; and if a piece of alum be taken out of alkaline air before the operation is over, the inside will be transparent, and the outside, to an equal thickness, will be a white crust.
Roasted alum also imbibes alkaline air, and, like the raw alum that has been exposed to it, acquires a taste that is peculiarly disagreeable.
Dissolve as much alumin boiling water as it will hold; when this is determined, pour it off and boil the solution down to one-half.
The same writer also states, without giving the proportions, that liquid gum-arabic and sufficient alum in solution, mixed and put into the slip or soft plaster, will make the cast so hard that it can be set as a panel in a cabinet.
To one gallon of water (hot) add one pound of alum and a quarter of a pound of salt.
In this state the skin was placed in a large tub; we spread a considerable quantity of pounded alum in all its folds.
Alum alone was frequently used by those unaware of its peculiar property of deliquescing in heat as well as in humidity.
However, as anything is better than a damp skin, I have used a mixture of four parts of burnt alum to one part of saltpetre (see Formula No.
It is often necessary to plunge the more delicate larvae into a weak solution of carbolic acid, or alum and water, to harden them before preservation.
If alum were mixed with rough salt in the proportion of two parts of the former to one of the latter, the solution would become more astringent in its operation.
For mammals I recommend my formula of burnt alumand saltpetre (No.
For this purpose the older taxidermists used a wash or powder, composed of equal parts of alum and nitre (saltpetre).
We then boiled some water with such quantities of alum that some pieces still remained at the bottom of the boiler--that is, more than saturated the water.
Another, an alum curd; it was made and set under the stove.
In the same moment that the paper soaked with alum comes in contact with the colors, the latter become bound by the formation of glycocholates of aluminium and do not run.
A solution of alum in cold water is much too weak for the above purpose as alum is but sparingly soluble in cold water.
If gilt, silver or aluminium edges are to be marbled, burnish slightly and moisten by a soft brush with a solution of powdered alum in hot water which is of the consistency of a thin pap.
If we mix a solution of resinous soap with one of alumthen we obtain an insoluble compound of resinous acids and aluminium.
The marbling of the gilt-edge is then executed in the usual way before the coating of alum is entirely dry.
Concentrated alum water is prepared in the following way; put 2 quarts of water and 13 ounces of alum into a pot and heat until the alum is entirely dissolved.
In the chapter upon gall I have mentioned in a general way the action of alum water upon the edges, it remains only therefore to explain the preparation and application of the same.
To avoid this the edges must be moistened with a thin paste to which some alum is added.
If we desire to marble books or papers we impregnate them with alum water, allow them to dry partly and take the edge from the size.
In another chapter upon ox-gall I shall explain why the colors used with Carrageen size must be transferred on alum paper.
Dissolve 1 pound of alum in 3 quarts of warm water, prepare another solution with the same quantity of soda, mix these two, whereupon the hydrate of aluminium is precipitated.
Ordinary earth and several of the lake-colors take without wetting of edges with alum water, but these colors leave much to be desired in their divisibility and fineness and always appear rugged.
Edges which have not been treated with this alum water show as a consequence poor and blotted results, although such little trouble is necessary to wet the edges with alum water.
The book edge or paper, which is to be marbled, is wet with a sponge dipped into this cold concentrated alum solution and must be allowed to dry for from 5 to 8 minutes, after which the produced edge may be lifted from the size.
Crimson is dyed by mordanting the wool with alum and tartar and dyeing in a separate bath with ground cochineal.
These beds are seen both in Whitecliff Bay, Headon Hill, and Alum Bay, or at the east and west extremities of the Isle of Wight.
This part of the series is finely exposed in the vertical beds of Alum bay, in the Isle of Wight, and east and west of Bournemouth, on the south coast of Hampshire.
Heer has mentioned several species which are common to this Alum Bay flora and that of Monte Bolca, near Verona, so celebrated for its fossil fish, and where the strata contain nummulites and other Middle Eocene fossils.
The Barton Clay, which immediately underlies these sands, is seen vertical in Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, and nearly horizontal in the cliffs of the mainland near Lymington.
Beneath the Barton Clay we find in the north of the Isle of Wight, both in Alum and Whitecliff Bays, a great series of various coloured sands and clays for the most part unfossiliferous, and probably of estuarine origin.
The gallant little Ghoorkas won their spurs by the capture of the whole line of trenches which menaced the Alum Bagh, where our sick and wounded had been left.
The enemy at last learned of the move, and tried to turn the rear at the Alum Bagh but failed.
The two British forces were vastly outnumbered by the enemy, and it has never been satisfactorily explained why the rebels did not attack the Alum Bagh.
On the afternoon of the 23rd the enemy were descried in a strong position in the neighbourhood of Lucknow, at a place known as the Alum Bagh.
The sick and wounded, along with the camp-followers and baggage, were left at the Alum Bagh, guarded by a strong detachment of Europeans and Sikhs.
Therefore Hope Grant took up his position at the Alum Bagh to wait for reinforcements, and to be at hand should Havelock require aid.
The glue and alum for sizing the lustring are not included, so don't bother yourselves about them, but just take the lustring and give it to them outside to size it withalum for you.
A sort of stone, found in the mines with the truealum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
The order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and many other plants.
The presence of alum can be detected by soaking a piece of the bread in an ammoniaca tincture of logwood.
When taken from this, the bone must be again dipped in the alum solution.
The second is to wash the brasswork with roche alum boiled in strong ley, in proportion of an ounce to a pint; when dry, rub it with fine tripoli.
Dissolve alum and white vitriol, of each one drachm, in one pint of water, and filter through paper.
If alum be present the bread will be turned blue, whereas pure bread will remain pink.
Take two drachms of roses and mix with eight ounces of boiling water, infuse for one hour, strain, and add one drachm of alum and one ounce of honey of roses.
Soap and labour may he saved by dissolving alum and chalk in bran water, in which the linen ought to be boiled, then well rinsed out, and exposed to the usual process of bleaching.
After drying it is to be steeped twice in dry alum water, then dried, and boiled in a decoction made of three quarters of a pound of madder to every pound of the article.
Nitre used with alum and water in the first boiling fixes the colour.
Boil two gallons of wheat and an ounce of alum in four gallons of water; strain through a fine sieve; dissolve half a pound more of alum and white tartar; add three pounds of madder, then put in the silk at a moderate heat.
Recent investigations have proved that the presence of alum is extremely injurious, especially to children, affecting the coats of the stomach and impairing the digestion.
When tender, take them out of the water and put them in cold water that has had half a large spoonful of alum dissolved in it.
Boil in alum water half an hour, alum size of a walnut (English); take out and boil in ginger water an hour; one ounce of ginger and water to cover.
Let them soak in the alum water for an hour; then rinse in clear, cold water, and boil in a syrup made of equal weight of white sugar.
In marbling writing paper, a sponge with a little alum water should be used to take off the gloss or shine from the edge, occasioned by the cutting knife, and to assist the marbling colour to take better.
If the stains be from water, the application of boiling water and alum will take them out.
The most suitable for this is a mineral salt, such as alum or vitriol; vegetable salts, such as potash, dissolve readily in a moist air and make marks or spots in the books.
Some persons are relieved by lotions of camphor, or laudanum, and others by washes of cayenne tea, or alum water.
It is also very good in these cases to bathe frequently with alum water, or decoction of white oak bark, or even to rub on some of the Ointment of Hydriodate of Potassa, diluted with an equal weight of fresh lard.
In extreme cases, the nostrils may be plugged with bits of sponge, or cotton, or some powdered alum may be snuffed up them.
There are no special precautions necessary in the development, except that no alum may be used previous to stripping.
Should the gelatine swell too much the sheet is placed for two minutes in a chrome-alum solution (1 to 200) and again blotted.
That of alum resembles it in some respects, yet differs from it essentially, when combined with the vitriolic acid: the alum is strongly astringent and antiseptic, the Epsom salt purgative and septic.
Take lac colour, and if you choose a little cochineal for richness, and soak from four to six days; strain it in two cloths and add alum and a little turmeric; let it stand for three hours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: astringent; clamp; pincers; styptic
