Dissolve separately one ounce of Nitrate of Silver and one and one-half ounces of Sub-Carbonate of Soda (best washing soda) in rain water.
The manipulations of the process are simple: In a certain quantity of rain water, kept at nearly the boiling temperature by an alcohol lamp placed under the vessel, dissolve per cent.
Rain water—any water in which no precipitate is thrown down by the addition of a few drops of a weak solution of silver nitrate—may be used with safety.
When I judge the image to be sufficiently intense I wash the proof in rain water, in preference to ordinary water, which might cause the gallic acid and tannin to turn brown.
Leaving out B and replacing it by rain water, this makes also a good solution for the cyanotype.
A gallon of strong ley, put into a great kettle of hard water, will make it as soft as rain water.
Nitrate of silver, one drachm; distilled or rain water, two ounces.
At seven miles we descended a little from the grassy plains to a flooded plain of considerable extent, but again rose from it to the sandy level, and finding a small puddle of rain water at 36 miles I halted.
It had large white patches of clay on it, the shallow receptacles of rain water, but they were all dry.
The rain water belongs to the field on which it falls, and it would be an advantage if it could all be made to pass down through the first three or four feet of the soil, and be removed from below.
Rain water falling on the soil will descend by its own weight to this level, and the water will rise into the drains, as it would flow over a dam, until the proper level is again attained.
Rain water collected in hollows of stiff land, by the simple movement given it by the wind, so puddles the surface that it holds the water while the adjacent soil is dry and porous.
RAIN WATER contains, among natural waters, the smallest amount of solid matter in solution.
At about eight miles we were lucky enough to find a puddle of rain water, and at once halted for the day to rest and refresh the horses.
There had been a considerable pool of rain water here a few days ago, but it was now nearly dried up by the sun, and I was obliged to order the horses to be watched during the night.
Near it, however, in the plains, we were fortunate enough to discover a puddle of rain water, and at once halted for the night, though the feed was indifferent.
Fossa grande, made by the currents of rain water; it is not less than two hundred feet deep, and a hundred broad; yet the lava in one place has filled it up.
Dissolve together in 14 pints of distilled or rain water:--Bisulphite of soda, 7 oz.
Rain water, which of itself is too pure to give rise to these incrustations, cannot be used alone for boiler purposes, for it has been found to exert a highly corrosive action upon the iron plates and fittings.
Cyanide of potassium, 2 oz; distilled water or rain water, 1 pint; dissolve.
For grinding the colors and diluting the same, river or rain water should be used, of course, proportionately to the quantity of color so that the latter will not become too thin.
To dilute it, a thin solution of gum or water (the best is rain water) may be used.
Rain water is the same, but the flowing water derived from a river already contains mineral salts in greater or smaller quantities, which are brought into it by different springs and substances.
A part of the water runs off on the surface, forming brooks, streams, and lakes, and if it falls on roofs of houses or on prepared catchment areas, it can be collected in cisterns or tanks as rain water.
They coiled this great serpent around a hill or mountain in the sea, and used him as a rope under whose action the hill spun rapidly round until the heavenly liquor (rain water) was procured in sufficient quantity.
Now have ready, in a glass or stoneware vessel, 1 quart of rain water, into which you have slowly added 4 oz.
Put together two ounces sulphuric acid, an ounce and a half nitric acid, one dram saltpetre and two ounces rain water.
Take twelve pounds of bruised galls, five pounds of gum Senegal, five pounds of green sulphate of iron, and twelve gallons of rain water.
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