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Neither did I put any sal-soda, or other acid or alkali, into my bread.
Walden 2004
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Take of chip logwood 1 lb., sal-soda two pence worth, water 1 gallon, boil all together, apply it while hot, to every kind of white wood, using a brush or sponge, and it will produce a most beautiful mahogany colour.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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F. H., of Mich., asks "if sal-soda will scale a boiler?"
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It is composed of 1 lb. of sal-soda with 1/4 lb. of chloride of lime in 2 quarts of boiling water.
Public School Domestic Science Adelaide Hoodless 1884
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It is much better to soften the water by the addition of alkalies, ammonia or sal-soda before using for laundry purposes than to depend entirely upon soap for cleansing.
Public School Domestic Science Adelaide Hoodless 1884
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-- On boiling what remains from the treatment with alcohol, with a weak solution of carbonate of soda (sal-soda), we obtain a yellowish-brown or black liquid.
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-- Take six quarts of soft water, six pounds of bar soap, one-quarter of a pound of sal-soda, three teaspoonfuls spirits turpentine, one and a half teaspoonful hartshorn, one teaspoonsful of camphor, two teaspoonfuls of salt.
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-- Five pounds bar soap, four pounds sal-soda, two ounces borax, and one ounce hartshorn.
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Neither did I put any sal-soda, or other acid or alkali, into my bread.
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Neither did I put any sal-soda, or other acid or alkali, into my bread.
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839
ruzuzu commented on the word sal-soda
Carbonate of soda (per Soule's).
December 2, 2014