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  • LEFT PAGE 2 For steam Purposes - 1 Ton of Coal is equal to 1 1/2 cords of wood --- Can Alcohol be frozen? Alcohol has never been frozen, though it has cooled to a temperature of 166 [degrees] below Zero, it becomes viscid --- To fill in a privy vault! half of each copperas and Lime. No smell. --- To make models for small castings use fine sand or plaster of Paris --- Extract from a murder Trial at Toronto Sept 21 1877 - Effects of Strychnine! It will show in months after with decomposed meat. 1/2 grain Kills an ordinary man A man poisioned by it, will die in 1/2 an hour. --- A Silver dollar contains or weighs 412 1/2 grains and contains 900 parts in 1000 of pure Silver, therefore 9/10 of 412 1/2 grains will give the pure Silver by weight in a dollar = 371 1/4 grains. --- Is the mineral found with lead ores and Known to miners as "mundic" the same as Iron pyrites? "mundic" is the name of Copper pyrites amongst English miners --- See the picture of Iron Railroad Bridge across the Hudson River at Albany New York It is a fine one Scientific American March 7 1874 RIGHT PAGE [tipped in paper obscures part of journal entries - see next page for transcription of entries] Dr. Carl Gassn's [Gassner's] [alum?] dry battery sal. Oxide zinc 1 part by weight Sal-ammoniac 1 " " " Plaster of Par. [Paris]3 " " " [struckthrough] Chloride of zinc 1 " " " Water 2 " " " If you are giving new life to old Dry Batterys leave out the Plaster. Hastings Forumla 1907 [in blue pencil]
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