Selenitic lime mortar is usually in the proportions of one to four or five, and must be mixed in a particular manner, the lime being first ground in water in the mortar mill, and the sand gradually added.
Water dissolves about one five-hundredth part of its weight of gypsum, and acquires the quality of hardness, with the characteristic selenitic taste.
The eyes of the wholeSelenitic world will be upon you.
I ought to add that the advocates of Scott's selenitic mortar claim that it not only sets quickly and hard, but that it is extremely tenacious, and consequently makes a much more robust wall than ordinary mortar.
It is claimed that a larger proportion of sand can be used with selenitic lime than with ordinary, thus counterbalancing the extra expense occasioned by royalty under the patent and special care in mixing.
Moreover, there was a growing conviction that there are no active volcanoes on the moon, and other considerations of the same tenor led to the complete abandonment of the selenitic theory.
This Acid is the Vitriolic, which, in combination with some of the earth of the lime, forms a sort of Selenitic Salt; which adds greatly to the probability of Messrs.
The hardness of water is generally occasioned by selenitic particles.
The neutralized Crystal of Tartar dissolves very readily in water, and is for that reason called Soluble Tartar: the Selenitic Salt, on the contrary, is hardly dissolvable in it at all.
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