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" Prussian-blue, he threw it into a porcelain bowl, not unlike a chemist's mortar, and crushed it into a very fine powder. At the same time a quantity of gypsum was produced and burned in the charcoal fires which were then roasting the teas. The object... "
A Journey to the Tea-countries of China, Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea ... - Page 93
by Robert Fortune - 1852 - 398 pages
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 75

England - 1854 - 800 pages
...the charcoal fires which were then roasting the teas. The object of this wai to soften it in order that it might be readily pounded into a very fine powder, in the same manuer as the Prussian blne had been. The gypsum, having been taken ont of the fire after a certain...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1852 - 536 pages
...the charcoal fires which were then roasting the teas. The object of this was to soften it, in order that it might be readily pounded into a very fine...readily crumbled down and was reduced to powder in the moitar. These two substances, having been thus prepared, were then mixed together in the proportion...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 95

1852 - 516 pages
...ffc#i pbject.of this was to soften it, in order that it might he readily pounded ,ipta.a |yery .finffv powder, in the same manner as the Prussian blue had...having been taken out of the fire after a certain tihi6 had elapsed, readily; crumbled down and was reduced to powder in the' mortar!' These two ?ub-,,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 75

Scotland - 1854 - 798 pages
...the charcoal firee which were then roasting the teas. The object of this was to soften it in order that it might be readily pounded into a very fine...the same manner as the Prussian blue had been. The fypsum, having been taken out of the re after a certain time had elapsed, readily crumbled down and...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 96

English literature - 1855 - 626 pages
...the charcoal fires which were then roasting the teas. The object of this was to soften it, in order that it might be readily pounded into a very fine powder, in the same manner as the Prussian-blue had been. The gypsum, having been taken out of the fire after a certain time had elapsed,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 96

English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...the charcoal fires which were then roasting the teas. The object of this was to soften it, in order that it might be readily pounded into a very fine powder, in the same manner as the Prussian-blue had been. The gypsum, having been taken out of the fire after a certain time had elapsed,...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 35

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 590 pages
...fires which were then roasting the teas. The object of this was to soften it, in order that it mipht be readily pounded into a very fine powder, in the same manner as the Prussian-blue had been. The gypsum, having boon taken out of the fire after a certain time had elapsed,...
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The Philadelphia Journal of Homœopathy, Volume 4

1856 - 778 pages
...the charcoal fires which were then roasting the teas. The object of this was to soften it, in order that it might be readily pounded into a very fine powder, in the same manner as the Prussian-blue had been. The gypsum, having been taken out of the fire after a certain time had elapsed,...
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Curiosities of Civilization

Andrew Wynter - Essays - 1860 - 554 pages
...charcoal fires which were then roasting the teas. The object of this •was to soften it, in order that it might be readily pounded into a very fine powder, in the same manner as the Prussian-blue had been. The gypsum, having been taken out of the fire after a certain time had elapsed,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 46

1855 - 1504 pages
...the charcoal fires which were then roasting the teas. The objeci of this was to soften it, in order that it might be readily pounded into a very fine powder, in the same manner as the Prussian-blue had been. The gypsum, having been taken out of the fire after a certain time had elapsed,...
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