"Red lead" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but by being also united with carbonic acid. It is a carbonat of lead. The mere oxyd of lead is called red lead. Litharge is another oxyd of lead, containing less oxygen. Almost all the metallic oxyds are used as paints. The various sorts of ochres consist chiefly of iron more or less oxydated. And it is a remarkable circumstance, that if you burn metals rapidly, the light ...
— Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 • Jane Marcet
... (red lead) were known from a remote antiquity, although the artificial preparation of vermilion was a secret possessed ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho
... together six parts rosin and one beeswax, and add a small quantity of lampblack; or, if red is preferable, add red lead. Common white wax is best, as most chemicals ...
— American Handbook of the Daguerrotype • Samuel D. Humphrey
... about 1880, when Faure in France and Brush in America broke away from the slow and weary process of "forming" the plates, and hit on clever methods of furnishing them "ready made," so to speak, by dabbing red lead onto lead-grid plates, just as butter is spread on a slice of home-made bread. This brought the storage battery at once into use as a practical, manufactured piece of apparatus; and the world was captivated with the idea. The great English scientist, ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... imitative processes, some of which are indistinguishable from it except by close inspection. In one of these wax, either in its natural state or tinted with an addition of powder colour, was used; in another glue mixed with whiting or plaster, also sometimes tinged, or red lead. On April 7, 1902, a paper was read at the Royal Institute of British Architects on wax stoppings of this kind by Mr. Heywood Sumner, in the course of which he said that the process he himself had used was as follows:—"First trace the design ...
— Intarsia and Marquetry • F. Hamilton Jackson |
