Excerpt from The Hand-Book of Science, or the Art of Making Money: Containing Over 200 Valuable Recipes and Formulas for Working in the Arts and Sciences Red - Acetate of alumina is the mordant, and madder' IS the dye-stuff. Pale Red of different shades - The preceding dant, diluted with water, and a Weak madder bath. Brown or Pompadour - A mixed mor-dant', contain ing a somewhat larger proportion of the red than of the black, and the dye of madder. Orange - The red mordant; and a bath, first of madder, and then of quercitron, Yellow - A strong red mordant; and the q citron bath, whose temperature should be consider ably under the boiling point of water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.