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Example sentences for "oxalic acid"

  • Or, clean the brass ornaments with the following mixture, which is used in the Royal Mews: dissolve one ounce of oxalic acid in a pint of water, to which add a pint of naphtha.

  • Ink spots may be removed by oxalic acid dissolved in water, and carefully applied with a hair pencil.

  • A solution of oxalic acid, citric acid, or tartaric acid, is attended with the least risk, and may be applied to paper and prints without fear of damage.

  • Clean boot tops with one ounce of white vitriol, and one ounce of oxalic acid dissolved in a quart of warm water.

  • Very frequently, when logwood has been used in manufacturing ink, a reddish stain still remains, after the use of oxalic acid, as in the former directions.

  • Dissolve a teaspoonful of oxalic acid in a teacup of hot water; rub the stained part well with a flannel or linen rag dipped in the solution.

  • Sometimes a little nitric acid is added to the solution of the coloured crystals, for the purpose of bleaching them, but in this way a minute quantity of oxalic acid is formed.

  • A strong solution of oxalic acid in water gives brass a fine colour.

  • Oxalic acid is sometimes present in citric acid, the cause of its presence being explained further on.

  • Recent writing (one or two days old) in gallic inks is changed by one application of oxalic acid to a light gray, or by hydrochloric acid to yellow.

  • Log-wood ink marks are mostly reddened by oxalic acid, and alizarin marks become bluish, but aniline inks are unaffected.

  • Printed on paper, designs with ferrocyanide of potassium and then soaked the paper when dry in a solution of oxalic acid in alcohol.

  • At this moment the excess of ferric oxide is filtered out and the liquor submitted to a quantitative analysis, the result of which leads to ascertain the quantity of ferric oxalate in 100 parts of the solution and the excess of oxalic acid.

  • To illustrate this curious and (so far as applications go) highly important property, I shall mention incidentally the results of some experiments made during the late fine weather on the habitudes of gold in presence of oxalic acid.

  • Let dry, expose until the proof is slightly blue; immerse it for five or ten seconds in a saturated solution of bichloride of mercury, wash only once and immerse in a solution of oxalic acid—saturated when cold—heated to about 55 deg.

  • The developer consists of an almost saturated solution of potassium oxalate acidified by oxalic acid, and for use heated to 80—85 deg.

  • The excitability of B is depressed by a few drops of strong potash or oxalic acid.

  • The excitability of A is now depressed by oxalic acid.

  • In (a) A is a normal contact, B has been depressed by oxalic acid; current of response is towards the more excitable A.

  • Williams attributes it to feed rich in saccharine matter (carrots, turnips) and to the excretion of oxalic acid by the skin.

  • Any disorder leading to impaired functional activity of the lungs is causative of an excess of hippuric acid and allied bodies, of oxalic acid, of sugar, etc.

  • Half an ounce of oxalic acid, in a pint of soft water.

  • Oxalic acid, a vegetable acid, which exists in sorrel.

  • A tumbler was on a small table and a bottle of oxalic acid, "salts of lemon, as they call it," said the man.

  • Oxalic acid poisoning--was it not the case that the girl would have died in great agony?

  • Look, just to show you how she hunts about for anything to do for me--said my old straw hat was much too shabby for Brighton and would I get her some stuff, oxalic acid, and let her clean it up for me.

  • Remembers distinctly sale of oxalic acid (produced) on Friday before the Saturday of the girl's death.

  • In such a case, as was mentioned previously in the separation of iron from manganese, it is necessary to redissolve the iron (after previously having poured off the liquid) in oxalic acid, and then the electrolysis is continued.

  • Stains of rust and ink can be removed by means of oxalic acid (2 ounces of oxalic acid to 1 pint of water--dissolves quickest in warm water) applied with cloth or brush, then rinsed thoroughly with plain water and sponge.

  • Rust or ink stains= can be removed with a solution of oxalic acid.

  • Straw is bleached by the vapors of sulphur, or a solution of oxalic acid or chloride of lime.

  • Clean the leather with a weak solution of oxalic acid, washing it off immediately, and when dry apply the composition with a sponge.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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