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The paste consists of pine black, clay or red-lead and oil - for use in light rooms.
4. Testing and auxiliary equipment for inking Frank Wenghfer 1990
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They find themselves now leaping toward the side of a half-sunken merchantman: black concave iron splashed with red-lead, each crusted rivet and pitted plate closing in, looming over - The woman is clearly unbalanced.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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He struts in the plumes which his fathers wore, is attired in the same nether garments, exhibits the same head-gear, and decorates his physiognomy with the sane proportion of white-wash, red-lead, bear's-grease, and
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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The red-lead separates itself from the sulphur and adheres to the negative portion of the stone, whilst the separated sulphur is at once attracted to the positive end, so that the golden-coloured mixture becomes slowly transformed into its two separate components -- the brilliant yellow sulphur, and the equally brilliant red-lead.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin
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"Echoes of Paris," which were marked with a red-lead pencil.
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I have accordingly mixed white-lead with putty with better results, in the proportion of two parts putty; one ditto white-lead (thick, such as gasfitters use); one-eighth ditto gold size -- or I have used red-lead, mixed with common putty and boiled oil; and, again, simply plaster of
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This polarity, or the presence of positive and negative electricity in one stone, may be strikingly illustrated in a very simple manner: -- If a little sulphur and red-lead, both in fine powder, are shaken up together in a paper or similar bag, the moderate friction of particle against particle electrifies both; one negatively, the other positively.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin
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Resembling red-lead in appearance, it is not subject to its changes, being perfectly durable in oil and water.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Here, in the mixing-room, stood great boxes, filled with sand, with red-lead, or with sparkling soda and potash; and beside a trough stood, shovel in hand, a good-natured-looking man, who was busily mixing portions of these three ingredients into one mass.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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There was nothing remarkable about the jars; they were large, embedded in the wall, painted with red-lead; each of them bore a sign denoting the class of wine inside, and had a spigot.
The Quest P��o Baroja 1914
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