Paraffin wax, a mixture of solid hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum, came into use in 1854 and stearine is now used with it.
Some of the modern candles are made of a mixture of stearine and the hard fat extracted from cocoanut-oil.
Tallow is not suitable for making a clear liquid soap since it is too high in stearine which when formed into the stearate makes an opaque solution.
The residue of this operation called stearine pitch or candle tar consists of a hard, brittle, dark substance.
When contents are in semi-solid condition, or when stearine has separated from liquid portions.
For a long time it was found impossible to find any use for stearine pitch, but in recent years a use has been found for same in the electrical installation of cables.
If the cover is very bad, considerable improvement is effected by repeated applications of the stearine glaze so as to fill up the damaged surface of the leather.
The odour and smoke emitted by the stearine can only be appreciated by those who have served their apprenticeship as cooks to an Arctic sledge party!
His cooking apparatus consists of a spirit lamp, a stearine lamp, a kettle, and a stew-pan.
From the sweet liquor of the stearine works (a product of the process of lime-saponification).
Mould candles formed of a mixture of the hard fatty acid obtained from palm oil and the stearine of cocoa-nut oil.
The candle I have in my hand is a stearine candle, made of stearine from tallow.
Then Bullion and Stearinewill drop in, I think,--both solid men, useful acquaintances.
Mr. Stearine hoped his friend would obtain as favorable terms as he could.
Mr. Stearine smiled again, as he had done every minute before, and expressed his gratification.
Mr. Stearine entered, not with his usual smile, but with an expression like that of a man trying to be jolly with the toothache.
The Stearine Candles, so much in use of late, are made of what chemists call “stearic acid.
This separates all the lime, which settles to the bottom, leaving the stearine floating on the top, from whence, when cold, it is taken and again well washed with steam.
The fat is then packed in cloths set in moulds and a slowly increasing pressure squeezes out the pure amber colored oil, leaving the stearine behind.
The tightness of the plaiting varies with the material used for the candle, wicks for stearine being looser than for paraffin, but tighter than for wax or spermaceti.
The oldest materials employed for making candles are beeswax and tallow, while among those of more recent introduction are spermaceti, stearine and paraffin wax.
The stearine or stearic acid industry originated in the discovery made by M.
For stearine candles the moulds are immersed in tepid water and the cooling must be slow, else the material will crystallize, though if it be too slow cracking will occur.
Cotton-seed oil is one of the cheapest vegetable oils fit for human consumption, beef-stearine the hard residue obtained in the manufacture of oleo-margarine after the more fluid fat has been pressed from the beef fat.
All fats are taken up by ether but those containing stearinein the smallest quantity.
If the soap intended to be produced is to be colorless, no resin must be employed, and a larger dose of liquor ammoniæ and caustic alkali must be used, according to the dryness of the stearine matters to be operated upon.
The dose of caustic alkali will much depend upon the purity of the stearine or margarine employed.
Our preparations consisted, first and foremost, in carefully calking the seams of our kayaks by melting stearine over them, and then restowing the cargo so as to leave room for us to sit in them.
In the meantime some of the others have built a large forge out on the ice with blocks of ice and snow, and to-morrow Sverdrup and I will heat and bend the runners in tar and stearine at such a heat as we can produce in the forge.
The oil is used for lubricating purposes, and the stearine by lard refiners in order to harden the lard, especially in warm weather.
Lard stearine is made from the fat of hogs which is rendered and then pressed and the oil extracted.
In addition, the bile contains combinations of stearine with gelatine and with carbonate and sulphate of sodium, which theoretical chemists believe are twin compounds of glycocholate and taurocholate.
These fatty compounds depend upon stearine partly oxidized, that is deprived of a certain number of atoms of hydrogen.
When subjected to pressure between folds of blotting-paper, the oleine is absorbed, while the stearine remains.
The stearine contains the stearic and margaric acids, which, when separated, are solid, and used as inferior substitutes for wax or spermaceti candles.
The more oleine in the fat, the softer the soap; the more stearine the harder.
It is composed of oleine 62 parts, stearine 65 parts.
Stearine must look out for his own paper; if he don't, he must go down.
Burntwick, and this by Stearine & Star, indorsed by Bullion.
Pity Stearine hadn't wick enough in him to stand alone.
Stearine owes me; you indorse; you can't pay, neither of you.
When alcohol is boiled with the natural oil, the greater part of the stearine remains undissolved.
Goods soiled with it should never be allowed to lie by in the warehouse, but be immediately cleansed before the air has fixed the stearine by converting it into margaric acid.
This texture is therefore broken down or comminuted by fusing the stearine in a plated copper pan, along with one thousandth part of pulverized arsenious acid, after which it is ready to be cast into candles in appropriate moulds.
Upon cooling the solution, the stearine falls to the bottom, while the elaine collects in a layer like olive oil, upon the surface of the supernatant solution, reduced by evaporation to one eighth of its bulk.
The particles consist of a strong membranous skin, enclosing stearine and elaine, or solid and liquid fat, which may be extracted by trituration and pressure.
A portion of oxide combines also with the stearine to form a metallic soap.
That stearine is very difficult of saponification.
Both the solid and the liquid are combinations of muriatic acid and oil of turpentine; indicating the existence of a stearine and an oleine in the latter substance.
The nature of the fats contributes also somewhat to the consistence of soaps; thus tallow, which contains much stearine and margarine, forms with potash a more consistent soap than liquid oils will do, which consist chiefly of oleine.
When kept long cool in a cask partly open, it deposits masses of white stearine along with a brownish powder.
The affinity between the stearine of tallow and the alkali, is so great that a soap may be speedily made from them in the cold.
By subjecting them to a great degree of cold, and compressing them between folds of blotting paper, a residuum is obtained, consisting chiefly of stearine and margarine; the latter of which may be dissolved out by oil of turpentine.
Stearine must be scraped very fine from a composite candle.
What with these taxes and with the higher wage of labour in France, the stearine works of Marseilles find themselves taken at advantage by the energetic manufacturers of Holland.
However, when looking over the drawers in the bedroom, I came upon a large box that had held a considerable quantity of hard stearine candles.
He used stearine candles, too; not the common paraffin variety.
Quite a large box--though nearly empty now--of stearine candles, six to the pound.
That we found in Blackmore's chambers a framed inscription of large size, hung upside down, together with what appeared to be the remains of a watch-glass and a box of stearine candles and some other objects.
In the bedroom I found a large box that had contained a considerable stock of hard stearine candles, six to the pound, and that was now nearly empty.
For Mr. Cowl, meeting all the first of the discharges, before the stearine was well up in the hose, was a loser instead of a receiver of deposit.
Frequently, unless you wished to leave the change behind, you were obliged to carry away the balance in cheap stearine or beer.
Many candles had been burnt on a platform of rock on the cliff side, and the sailors who came up with me brought a new supply of stearine and set them ablaze on that natural altar.
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