 Singer, is made by melting together one ounce of tin and two ounces of zinc, which are to be mixed, while fluid, with six ounces of mercury, and agitated in an iron, or thick wooden box, till cold.  Treatises on Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, and Electro-magnetism - Page 16by Peter Mark Roget - 1832 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1832 - 650 pages
...observes that dry silk is very efficacious, but that the most powerful effects are obtained by the us« of an amalgam of tin, zinc, and mercury, applied by...resin, one pound of bees' wax, one pound of red ochre, and two table-spoonfuls of plaster of Paris. The ochre and plaster of Paris should be well dried, and... | |
 | Physics - 1832 - 640 pages
...observes that dry silk is very efficacious, -but that the most powerful ettects are obtained by the useof an amalgam of tin, zinc, and mercury, applied by means...resin, one pound of bees' wax, one pound of red ochre, and two table-spoonfuls, of plaster of Paris. The ochre and plaster of Paris should be well dried,... | |
 | Physics - 1832 - 642 pages
...cold. It is then to be reduced to very- fine powder in a mortar, and mixed with a sufficient quant it v of hog's lard to form it into a paste. When amalgams have a large proportion of mercury, tht'iv action is variable and transient The best cement for attaching the cylinder to its pivots, is... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...of mercury, and agitated in an iron or thick wooden box until cold. It is then reduced to а verу fine powder in a mortar, and mixed with a sufficient quantity of lard to form it into a paste. The rubber is supported on a glass pillar, similar to the prime conductor,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 642 pages
...be mixed, while fluid, with six ounces of mercury, and agitated in an iron or thick wooden box until cold. It is then to be reduced to very fine powder...sufficient quantity of hog's lard to form it into a paste. The mode in which the electrical machine just described acts, will readily be understood. The friction... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...ounces of mercury, and agitated m an iron, or thick wooden-box, until cold. It is then tobe reduced to a very fine powder in a mortar, and mixed with a sufficient quantity of lard to form it into a paste. t The electrical machine described in Fig. 119 is a plate macbine, and... | |
 | John Johnston - Physics - 1846 - 314 pages
...then pouring in two or three ounces of mercury previously heated. When cold it is to be ground to a fine powder in a mortar, and mixed with a sufficient quantity of lard or tallow to make it adhere well to the leather or silk of the rubber. In order that electricity... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1849 - 418 pages
...of mercury, and agitated in an iron, or thick wooden box, until cold. It is then to be reduced to a very fine powder in a mortar, and mixed with a sufficient quantity of lard to form it into a paste. 264. For what purpose is the electrical machine constructed? Upon what... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1850 - 408 pages
...of mercury, and agitated in an iron, or thick wooden box, until cold. It is then to be reduced to a very fine powder in a mortar, and mixed with a sufficient quantity of lard to form it into a paste. 264. For what purpose is the electrical machine constructed? Upon what... | |
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