Sometimes he was sent out to carry materials to the places where the men were working--heavy loads of paint or white lead--sometimes pails of whitewash that his slender arms had been too feeble to carry more than a few yards at a time.
One of the worst jobs that he had to do was when a new stock of white leadcame in.
At the store of a white lead manufacturer, I was told they employ a number of girls, when busy, to label the tin cans.
The unhealthiness of the common painter's business arises from the turpentine, in evaporating, carrying off with it white lead, but no white lead is employed on the tin ware.
The making ofwhite lead is unhealthy, and, I suppose, very disagreeable work.
Women are employed in England in the manufacture of white lead.
On the Composition of Commercial Samples of White Lead," by G.
The Ulcer must be at first gently dry'd with a Plaister of Diasulphuris or Diachylon, and afterward that of Diapalma may be us'd, and Ceruse or White Lead.
Take three Pints of Oil of Roses, nine Ounces of white Wax, one Pound of Venice Ceruse or white Lead, and a Dram and a half of Camphire.
White lead, and several other principal paints, are purchased in their crude condition, and reduced to a state of minute division in paint-mills.
The vapor thus produced, assisted by the oxygen which is present, converts the exposed surface into a carbonate of lead, the substance known as white lead, or ceruse.
Ceruse, or White Lead, is also a very dangerous poison.
If it be barely exposed to the vapour of that Acid, its surface is corroded, and converted into a kind of calx or white rust, much used in painting, and known by the name of Ceruse or White Lead.
Runny Paint [340] The paint will sag and run if too much oil is put in white lead.
White lead should be put in the joints before turning in the screws.
Different methods are used in the preparation of white lead, but the old one known as the Dutch process is still the principal one employed.
The purity of white lead is usually determined by observing the volume of carbon dioxide given off when it is treated with an acid.
On account of its low cost it is sometimes used as an adulterant of white lead, which is also a heavy white substance.
In poisoning by white lead, Dr Alfred Taylor recommends the administration of a mixture of sulphate of magnesium and vinegar, as preferable to the sulphate alone.
If the priming be of oil colour it is desirable that the chief pigment used in making it should be white lead, and that if any other colours are added, they should be in comparatively small quantities.
This preparation is seldom employed, the commercial carbonate (WHITE LEAD) being substituted for it.
This is promoted by bandage, by the sorbentia externally, as powder of bark, white lead; solution of sugar of lead.
And I have seen seven parts of bark in fine powder mixed with one part of ceruss, or white lead, in fine powder, applied dry to scrophulous ulcers, and renewed daily, with great advantage.
Zinc recommended in paint to avoid lead poisoning, and the new oxy-sulphide of Zinc described, with covering qualities equal to white lead.
Zebra" wishes to know the best test of the genuineness of white lead; also the simplest way to try the comparative value of two samples of ground white lead.
If igneousness is said to be the being of fire, whiteness is also the being of white lead.
Thus visible whiteness, which is of the very being of white lead, is not of the being of the swan, because a swan may be of some color other than white.
Whiteness then completes the being of white lead, just as heat completes the being of fire.
With us, at least, tungstate of baryta is far from having the body of white lead, and indeed is inferior in opacity to good zinc white.
This harmless substitute for the injuriouswhite lead is prepared on a large scale in Paris by M.
Tungstate of baryta answers perfectly, covers as well as white lead, and is as unalterable as zinc white.
Compounded slightly with blue black, and washed over with zinc white, white lead may be exposed to any ordinary impure atmosphere with comparative impunity.
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