 | 1852 - 446 ページ
...fibres into a vast number of ribbon-like filaments, the whole mass gradually being changed from the damp, rigid aggregation of flax, to a light, expansive...size like leavening dough, or an expanding sponge. This, when examined under the microscope, presents all the appearance of raw cotton. When carded and... | |
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1751 - 206 ページ
...soaked in the solution of subcarbonate of soda was no sooner immersed in the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once...turn was placed in the next vessel, which contained the hypo-chlorite of magnesia, and became at once bleached, attaining then the colour, as it had just... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1851 - 552 ページ
...soaked in the solution of subcarbonate of soda was no sooner immersed in the vessel containing the acidulated water, than its character became at once...turn was placed in the next vessel, which contained the hypo-chlorite of magnesia, and became at once bleached, attaining then the colour, as it had just... | |
 | 1851 - 606 ページ
...soaked in the solution of sub-carbonate of soda was no sooner immersed in the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once...turn was placed in the next vessel which contained the hypo-chlorite of magnesia, and became at once bleached, attaining then the colour, as it had just... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1851 - 722 ページ
...fibre soaked in the solution of carbonate of soda was no sooner immersed in the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once...size like leavening dough or an expanding sponge. This change was no less striking when this converted mass in its turn was placed in the next vessel,... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1851 - 756 ページ
...fibre soaked in the solution of carbonate of soda was no sooner immersed in the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once...size like leavening dough or an expanding sponge. This change was no less striking when this converted mass in its turn was placed in the next vessel,... | |
 | 1851 - 568 ページ
...is stated that it becomes at once changed, as if " by a new instance of natural magic," from a damp aggregation of flax to a light expansive mass of cottony...size, like leavening dough or an expanding sponge ; and this material, it is asserted, can be produced at a cost not exceeding L"//, per Ib., which is... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - 1852 - 850 ページ
...soaked in the solution of sub-carbonate of soda, was no sooner immersed in the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once...size like leavening dough, or an expanding sponge. This change was no less striking when this converted mass, in its turn, was placed in the next vessel,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1852 - 576 ページ
...soaked in the solution of sub-carbonate of soda, was no sooner immersed in the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once...size like leavening dough, or an expanding sponge. This change was no less striking when this converted mass, in its turn, was placed in the next vessel,... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - 1852 - 534 ページ
...soaked in the solution of sub-carbonate of soda, was no sooner immersed in the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once...expansive mass of cottony texture, increasing in size likeleavening dough, or an expanding sponge. This change was no less striking when this converted mass,... | |
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The flax fibre, soaked in the solution of sub-carbonate of soda, was no sooner immersed in the vessel containing the acidulated water than its character became at once changed from that of a damp, rigid aggregation of flax to a light, expansive mass of... 
