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" ... is passed over them, but they re-appear immediately when moistened by the breath, .and again disappear when the glass becomes dry. Steatite is not so easily effaced as chalk, and does not, like that substance, change its colours. Tailors and embroiderers... "
The Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts - Page 404
1826
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 14

Science - 1826 - 428 pages
...restored. Steatite has a great affinity for glass ; it is also employed, in the manner of paste,, rsduced to a fine powder, and mixed with colouring matters,...composition of the greater number of the balls which are employed for cleaning silks and woollen cloths ; it also forms the basis of some preparations of paint....
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 14

Science - 1826 - 440 pages
...altered restored. Steatite has a great |yed, in, the manner of paste, reluxed. with colouring maters, It also serves as a sympathetic crayon for writing...composition of the greater number of the balls which are employed for cleaning silks and woollen cloths ; it also forms the basis of some preparations of paint....
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 14

Science - 1826 - 418 pages
...traces seem effaced, when a piece of woollen cloth is passed over them, but they re-appear im* mediately when moistened by the breath, and again disappear...composition of the greater number of the balls which are employed for cleaning silks and woollen cloths ; it also forms the basis of some preparations of paint....
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The Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent Inventions, Volume 1

Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1828 - 394 pages
...as a sympathetic crayon for writing upon glass ; the traces seemed effaced, when a piece of woollen is passed over them/ but they re-appear immediately,...enters into the composition of the greater number of balls which are em • ployed for cleaning silks and woollen cloths ; it also forms the basis of some...
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Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 11

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 628 pages
...embroiderers prefer it to chalk for marking silk. It |><>ssesses the |.i.».,-iu of uniting with oils nnd fat bodies, and enters into the composition of the greater number of the balls which are employed for cleaning silks and woollen cloths. It iJ«o forms the basis of some prei>arations of paints....
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The popular encyclopedia; or, 'Conversations Lexicon': [ed. by A. Whitelaw ...

Popular encyclopedia - 1885 - 498 pages
...colouring matters, for painting on this substance. It possesses the property of uniting with oils and fats, and enters into the composition of the greater number of the balls which are employed for cleaning silks and woollen cloths. It also forms the basis of some preparations of paints....
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The Register of arts, and journal of patent inventions, ed. by L ..., Volume 1

Luke Hebert - 1828 - 392 pages
...as a sympathetic crayon for writing upon glass ; the traces seemed effaced, when a piece of woollen is passed over them, but they re-appear immediately,...enters into the composition of the greater number of balls which are em > ployed for cleaning silks and woollen cloths; it also forms the basis of some...
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