The two first-named ingredients are to be mixed first, and after the gum is dissolved, the mastic is to be added, and the whole allowed to macerate for a week.
When the mastic is dissolved, put in an ounce of Venice turpentine, and agitate the whole till the turpentine is perfectly dissolved.
To an ounce of gum mastic add as much highly rectified spirits of wine as will dissolve it.
Mix six ounces of pure mastic gum with the same quantity of pounded glass, and introduce the compound into a bottle containing a pint of oil of turpentine.
A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors.
A resin exuding from themastic tree, and obtained by incision.
Is it of these resins that the mastic and copal varnishes, so much used in painting, are made?
If you will pour some water into this glass of mastic varnish, it will combine with the alcohol in which the resin is dissolved, and the latter will be precipitated in the form of a white cloud-- EMILY.
We have seen it dissolve copal and mastic to form varnishes; and these resins are certainly not soluble in water, since water precipitates them from their solution in alcohol.
The arbutus, myrtle, and the mastic are trees of so small a growth that they cannot be classed with "Woods and Forests.
There were some pretty intelligent little girls and boys; some of these were chewing mastic gum, a white leathery substance which they gathered from incisions in the bark of this common shrub.
The banks were richly clad with rosy oleanders, myrtles, mastic shrubs; and the shade of several fine old plane-trees in full foliage invited us at once to halt immediately upon the edge of the rippling stream.
Upon our right we skirted a deep ravine, the bottom and sides of which were completely covered with mastic shrubs, and myrtles.
For further safety in this regard the matches may be rendered perfectly water-proof by dipping their ends in thin mastic or shellac varnish.
To the east is the broad promontory lying behindMastic Point.
We do not ourselves remember to have ever seen on old pictures such changes, though we have seen them to a lamentable and obliterative degree on pictures painted within the last fifty years in oil and mastic varnish.
Parius in such cases makes his pessaries only of cork, shaped like a small egg; he covered them with wax and mastic dissolved together, and fastening them to a thread, he put them into the womb.
The alcohol must be first made to act upon the copal, with the aid of a little oil of lavender or camphor, if thought fit; and the solution being passed through a linen cloth, the mastic must be introduced.
Mastic is likewise used to cement false backs or doublets to stones to alter their hue.
Hamelin's mastic or lithic paint to cover the facades of brick buildings, &c.
The resin mastic alone is sometimes used by jewellers to cement by heat cameos of white enamel or coloured glass to a real stone, as a ground to produce the appearance of an onyx.
A solution of mastic in spirits of turpentine, whether alone or mixed with fulminate, has no action whatever on bright copper, but protects it from being tarnished.
It was built of clay daubed over plaited branches of the mastic tree and roofed with palmetto leaves.
This mastic is composed of fine lime from burnt marble, and finely powdered Travertine stone, mixed to the consistence of a paste, with strong linseed oil.
Upon the surface of this a mastic or cementing paste, is gradually spread, as the progress of the work makes it wanted, which forms the adhesive ground, or bed, on which the mosaic is laid.
We know that mastic and various resins are soluble in alcohol, and are precipitated when the solution is poured into water: Eau de Cologne, for example, produces a white precipitate when poured into water.
With a cell an inch and a half in width, containing water, into which the solution of mastic is suffered to drop, the same effect may be obtained.
The effect is very interesting when a solution of mastic is permitted to drop into such a tube, and the fine precipitate to diffuse itself in the water.
To obtain particles of a proper size, Bruecke recommends 1 gramme of colourless mastic to be dissolved in 87 grammes of alcohol, and dropped into a beaker of water, which is kept in a state of agitation.
Jewellers' or Armenian cement consists of isinglass with mastic and gum ammoniac dissolved in spirit.
Quicklime mixed with white of egg, hardened Canada balsam, and thick copal or mastic varnish are also useful for cementing broken china, which should be warmed before their application.
We hold the sieve containing the mastic over the cock and, gently tapping the box A with a piece of wood like a medium-sized file handle, shake down a little snowstorm of mastic dust over the face of the cock C.
After the masticis sifted on, the cock should be heated up to about 250° F.
To do acid frosting, we procure two ounces of gum mastic and place in the square sieve, shown at Fig.
The shellac protection will not need much patching up during the three or four bitings of acid, as the turpentine used to wash off the mastic does not much affect the shellac coating.
To obtain a nice frosting the process of applying the mastic and etching must be repeated three or four times, when a beautiful coarse-grain mat or frosting will be produced.
The philosophy of the process is, the nitric acid eats or dissolves the brass, leaving a little brass island the size of the particle of mastic which was attached to the surface.
Exactly how much mastic dust is required to produce a nice frosting is only to be determined by practice.
Besides that obtained from the incisions, mastic of very fine quality spontaneously exudes from the small branches.
The lentisk or mastic plant is indigenous to the Mediterranean coast region from Syria to Spain, but grows also in Portugal, Morocco and the Canaries.
Although experiments have proved that excellent mastic might be obtained in other islands in the archipelago, the production of the substance has been, since the time of Dioscorides, almost exclusively confined to the island of Chios.
The West Indian mastic tree is the Bursera gummifera and the Peruvian mastic is Schinus molle; but neither of these furnishes commercial resins.
Cape mastic is the produce of Euryops multifidus, the resin bush, or harpuis bosch of the Boers--a plant of the composite order growing abundantly in the Clanwilliam district.
Sindh, Baluchistan and Cabul, yield a kind of mastic which is met with in the Indian bazaars under the name of Mustagirumi, i.
The name mastic tree is also applied to a timber tree, Sider oxylon mastichodendron, nat.
Mastic occurs in commerce in the form of roundish tears about the size of peas.
The mastic districts of that island are for the most part flat and stony, with little hills and few streams.
The Mastic is stated to have been under the special protection of Bacchus, as being the tree under which the Bacchanals found and slew Pentheus, King of Thebes, who had forbidden his subjects to acknowledge the new god.
When quite dry, with a large camel-hair brush lay on a coating of parchment size, repeating this when dry: then varnish with mastic varnish.
Mastic varnish may be procured at oil and color-shops.
Second--When the painting is finished let it dry four days, and then cover the front with a coat of mastic varnish.
These villages are situated in the mountainous parts; and the Christian cultivators of the mastic not only paid no tithe nor tribute, but enjoyed certain privileges.
To hinder its progress and propagation to the neighboring teeth, he advises the carious cavity to be filled with a “cement” composed of mastic and alum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mastic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adhesive; cement; composition; concrete; mortar; plaster; resin
