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Dictionarium polygraphicum. To tinge LEAD of a gold Colour. To make LEAD of a golden colour.


Dictionarium Polygraphicum:
Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested.
Vol II.
London: Printed for C. Hitch and C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, and S. Austen in St. Paul's Church Yard. MDCCXXXV.
1735
To tinge LEAD of a gold Colour.
Take of purg'd Lead one pound, sal-armoxiac in powder 1 ounce, salt-pctre half an ounce, Jal-ellebrot z drachms, put all into a crucible, secit in a furnace for 2 days, then add to it sulphur of sol, and it will be thoroughly ting'd.

To make LEAD of a golden colour.
Put an ounce of quicksilver into a crucible, set it over the fire 'till it is hot, then add to it of the best leaf-gold 1 ounce, and take it from the fire, and mingle it with purified Lead melted one pound; mingle all well together with an iron rod, to which put of the filtrated solution of vitriol in fair water 1 ounce, then let it cool, and it will be of a gold colour; dissolve the vitriol in its equal weight of water.

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