 Stockholm called attention to the use of alum for preserving wood from fire,, stating that wood or timber for the purpose of building may be secured against the action of fire by letting it remain for some time in water wherein vitriol, alum or any other...  Some Facts about Treating Railroad Ties - Page 36by William Francis Goltra - 1912 - 105 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell - Formulas, recipes, etc - 1819 - 430 pages
...consumed by the intensenessof the heat, but they yielded no flame." He concludes, from this experiment, that wood or timber, for the purpose of building,...been dissolved, which contains no inflammable parts. To this experiment it may be added, that wood, which has been impregnated with water, wherein ยป vitriol... | |
 | Cooking - 1819 - 440 pages
...consumed by the in tenseness of the Iieat7 But they yieldedno flame.'5 He concludes, from this experiment, that wood or timber, for the purpose of building,...it remain for some time in water, wherein vitriol, alurn, or any "other salt has been dissolved, which contains no inflammable parts. To this experiment... | |
 | Maria Eliza Rundell - 1837 - 596 pages
...flame." He concludes, from this experiment, that wood, or timber, for the purpose of building, may fye secured against the action of fire, by letting it...been dissolved, which contains no inflammable parts. over with tar, or some kind of paint ; in order to this, the wood must be rubbed with very warm vitriol... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Cookery - 1857 - 730 pages
...consumed by the intenseness of the heat, but they emitted no flame." He conclndes, from this experiment, that wood, or timber, for the purpose of building,...been dissolved, which contains no inflammable parts. To this experiment it may be added, that wood, which has been impregnated with water, wherein vitriol... | |
 | Thomas Allen Britton - Dry-rot - 1875 - 428 pages
...consumed by the intenseness of the heat, but they yielded no flame." He concludes, from this experiment, that wood or timber for the purpose of building may...dissolved which contains no inflammable parts. In Sir John Pringle's Tables of the antiseptic powers of different substances, he states alum to be thirty... | |
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