flowers from their soft efflorescence, or aggregation of minute spicular
crystals into flakes; as flowers of sulphur, the crystallized
refrigerated vapour of burning brimstone; flowers of benzoin, benzoic
acid; corrosive sublimate, bichloride of mercury; sublimed arsenic,
camphor, sal-ammoniac; vegetable and lamp black, the condensed fumes of
burning oils and resins; soot, the flakes deposited in chimneys from the
smoke of burnt wood and coals.
Distillation is the evaporation of liquid substances by heat, and their
condensation by cold again into liquids.
The products of distillation (distillates) are usually termed spirits;
as spirit of wine, alcohol or brandy; spirit of grain, gin, hollands, or
whiskey; spirit of molasses, rum; spirit of naphtha; benzine, &c.
Water heated and cooled, combines in resemblance the effects
of sublimation and distillation; aqueous vapour by congelation
crystallizing into snow; and by condensation liquefying into water.
The condensation of steam into water is familiar to everyone. It is
stated that in St. Petersburg, upon the sudden admission of a current of
cold air into a crowded assembly-room, the vapour in the air was
immediately congealed, and fell in the form of snow flakes. Probably
snow might be produced artificially by driving steam into a vessel
preparatively cooled below the freezing point.
Gums are the exudation of trees, vegetable mucilage thickened by
exposure to the atmosphere; as gum from cherry and plum trees; gum
arabic, from varieties of the acacia, Turkey, East India, Senegal, or
Barbary; Turkey gum arabic is the best.
Resins are the exudation of trees, generally evergreens, essential oils
inspissated by oxygenation: as mastic, sandarac, benzoin.
Gums are soluble in water; resins in alcohol and essential oils.
Gums dry and swell up by heat; resins soften and melt.
Gum resins are partly resinous and partly mucilaginous; as lac,
assafœtida, galbanum. In submitting shellac to the action of alcohol,
the whole is never entirely dissolved; as the lac contains, besides the
resin, a mucilage which floats about in the liquid, and renders it
turbid.
Many substances which go under the name of gums in commerce, are in
reality resins or gum-resins.
Native turpentine, the juice of trees of the fir tribe, of the
consistency of honey, yields on distillation spirit of turpentine,
called also oil of turpentine, and by painters turps; the dry mass left
behind in the retort is colophony or rosin. Rosin is soluble in alcohol,
and is therefore a resin; rosin and resin, however, are not synonymous;
all rosin is a resin; but all resins are not rosin. Rosin has been tried
in pyrotechny, but is of no use: a solution of it in spirit will bind
stars; but it renders them white and smoky.
Volatile, ethereal, or essential oils are obtained from plants by
distillation with water; as oil of roses, lavender, thyme, peppermint,
aniseed, &c.
Fixed oils are obtained from animal fat by heat; and from seeds of
plants by pressure and percussion; as, train oil, cod-liver oil; palm
oil, croton, linseed, cottonseed, &c.
Oxychloride of copper, if difficult to procure, may be made by laying
thin pieces of copper in a dish, and pouring upon them a mixture of half
water, and half hydrochloric or muriatic acid. The next day remove them,
and lay them on a board in the shade to dry. When dry, brush off the
green powder which will be found on the outside, with a toothbrush, into
a basin of water. After a quantity is obtained, wash it as directed for
sulphur, and dry it in the bag, fig. 33. Test it with litmus paper to
ascertain if free from acid.
Saw a piece of coke or charcoal in two, and on the flat surface place a
few copper filings; direct upon them the flame of a lamp or candle with
the blow-pipe; they will simply become red-hot. Lay a few more filings,
and on them a little calomel or sal-ammoniac: now direct the flame, and
a beautiful blue colour will be produced. Any of the salts of copper
may be used to obtain the same effect, the chlorine gas liberated from
the calomel (chloride of mercury) or from the sal-ammoniac (ammonic
chloride) giving a blue colour to all preparations of copper burnt in
it.
Weights for quickmatch may be made by nearly filling the brass tube with
useless rusty old nails, tacks, screws, or odd bits of iron, or brass;
then pouring in melted lead. If the ladle will not hold enough lead to
fill it at once, it may be poured in at twice, thrice, four or more
times. A tube 1-1/4 inch diameter and 6 inches long will weigh 2-1/2 lb.
This will keep a great length of match tight and straight. Half-an-inch
at each end of the tube should be solid lead, one to receive the screw,
and one to make a firm bottom.
If at any time the basil end of a pinwheel pipe should be too small to
admit the nose of the funnel, it may be enlarged by binding a gum strip
round it. If pinwheels are too dry, they break in winding, from the
hardness of the composition; if too damp, from the softness of the
paper. As paper cannot be relied upon for being always of uniform
thickness, if it be found that a pinwheel pipe is too thin, cut the
strip a little broader. Discretion may be used in all cases.
Coloured lances may be primed with meal powder very slightly damped with
thin lac solution. Leader pipes may, if preferred, be fastened to lances
with patent short whites: they may be procured at the haberdasher's; the
price of them is 2_d._ per oz. Push the pin through the side of the
leader, down into the side of the lance; then make a triangular hole
through the middle of the leader, down into the middle of the lance,
turning the tool round to break the priming, and secure the leader with
a gum strip. The gum strip, bent round, assumes the shape of the capital
letter T. The best tool for making the holes is a steel bradawl,
ground triangular and to a sharp point; another bradawl ground to a
tapering point like a needle, about 3/4 of an inch long, may be used
for making holes up the lances to receive the wires. Scissor-grinders
will shape them, if you have not a grindstone; or they may be rubbed on
a stone, such as used by mowers to whet their scythes. Afterwards set
them sharp on a hone.
Fig 169 is a wasp-light. The proper composition will be found among the
fuses: drive it into a roman candle case with the rammer, fig. 4. Bring
the leader from the mouth b, backwards along the outside of the case,
and tie it in a couple of places, as drawn. Evening is the best time to
use it: push the end b into the nest, light at a, and retire.
Instead of a five-pointed star, a seven-lance star, fig. 170, may be
employed. To form it, have a piece of deal board, half-an-inch thick,
6-1/2 inches square: draw the diagonals, to find the centre; and, with a
pair of compasses, stretched to a 3-inch radius, describe a circle.
Carry the radius 6 times round it; and in the points and the centre
drive 7 French nails; cut off their heads, and fix on them 7 lances: the
middle one, crimson; the others, 3 green and 3 blue, placed alternately.
In forming a rocket spindle, taper it no more than will just make it
deliver: the thicker it is left at the top, the stronger of course it
will be. For small rockets, 3/8 or 4/8, a brass, iron, or steel wire,
with a few notches filed in it, or made jagged with a cold chisel and
hammer, driven into a block, will hold firm without a screw. I have
seen them driven into a piece of thick plank, and the nipple formed with
an inch-length of wood, cut cylindrical, bored and slipped over the
spindle, like c in fig. 155. Indeed, a spindle might be formed from a
5-inch or 6-inch carriage-bolt. At Woolwich Arsenal rockets are charged
solid. The fuse is shaped into pellets, something like large peppermint
lozenges, or cylindrical cakes of paste blacking, by hydraulic pressure
in a mould. These pellets, discs, or cakes, which are almost as hard as
a stone, are put into the case, and pressed in tight: the rocket is then
fixed upright, and slowly drilled, as I have seen, with a conical borer,
working vertically, to let the dust fall and clear itself. This mode
must not be imitated by an amateur; indeed, without accurate machinery,
the desired object could not be effected, and there is constant
liability to danger.
The fuse of a rocket, when consolidated, assumes the form of fig. 18,
with the head sawn off, except that the hollow is tapering, instead of
cylindrical; and the rocket stands thus--
1/3 cup + 6 choke & hollow + 1-1/3 solid + 1/3 plaster = 8 diameters.
In the trade, meal powder, saltpetre, and charcoal, go by the names of
meal, petre, and coal. Common coal, for burning in fires, is never
employed in pyrotechny; it would produce only dull red sparks and smoke.
Meal, or petre, added to a fuse quickens it; sulphur slackens it. 6
meal, 1 sulphur, make a quickmatch that blows through a leader with
great violence. 1 meal, 1 sulphur, will scarcely burn; pure meal only
should be used for match, or grain powder with hot starch. It has
already been stated that nitre in powder is sometimes adulterated with
salt, and that it is impossible to make a rocket with such stuff.
Powdered chlorate of potash is sometimes adulterated with nitre: with
such mixture it is equally impossible to produce good colours: nitre
whitens flame, and overpowers colour.
Chlorate of potash, charcoal, sulphur, stearine, used separately, with
discretion, vivify colours; calomel deepens the colour, but slackens the
flame.
Star compositions which inflame vigorously in dry summer weather, will
often scarcely burn at all in damp weather; this is especially the case
with stars containing nitrate of strontian.
In washing sulphur, stir it with a wooden spoon; if a silver one were
used, a black sulphide would be formed on the surface, very difficult to
remove. If silver coins in the pocket get tarnished while using sulphur,
rub them with salt, or chalk, or whiting.
A magnet is convenient for lifting tacks, small screws, &c., from
divisions in nail boxes.
If the brass tube formers get tarnished, scrape off the lacquer with a
knife, sand paper them anew, and give them a fresh coat of lacquer.
Let all wheel frames and woodwork be coloured black, either with paint,
or with a mixture of vegetable or lamp black and size, or thin glue, to
prevent their being seen. A white thread hung upon a bush, is visible
many yards off; a black one can scarcely be seen a few feet distant.
Black is not only invisible, but it throws the brilliancy of sparks, and
the vividness of colours, into stronger relief.
Let every article be dried, reduced to a fine powder, put into a clean
bottle, and carefully corked: also let every bottle be labelled: the
labels are best stuck on with paste, not gum: gum labels are apt to drop
off in damp weather.
Let all metallic articles, liable to rust, be wiped with a rag dipped
into olive oil, before being laid by for future use.
Before putting aside the six-inch circular frying-pan, set it over the
fire till warm, put into it a lump of tallow, and smear it with a rag:
when wanted for use, set it on the fire, put into it a cupful of water
and a piece of soda; make the water boil, and stir it well round; pour
away the water, and dry the pan over the fire.
Let muslin sieves always be dried before being put aside; also, again,
before use. Zinc sieves may simply be wiped dry.
Have a place for everything; and keep everything in its place.
Faraday, the great master in experimental lectures, always devoted many
hours to the preparation of his experiments for each lecture. No point,
however trifling, bearing upon the success of the experiment, was
considered unimportant: he used to try the stoppers of all the bottles
he had to use, to see that they had not become fixed, and thus would
cause delay by requiring forcible opening. His example cannot be too
carefully copied. Before firing a display, all posts, spindles, lines,
staples, screws, touch-paper, portfires, pieces of leadered quickmatch,
&c., should be carefully provided. A yard of tape slowmatch, hung to a
nail at the top of a post, will supply fire for a long time.
A book should be kept for future guidance, in which should be written
the quantity of composition required to make a certain number of
articles of a certain size: by attending to this, much waste will be
prevented.
Never, upon any account, leave compositions lying about; and let nothing
be done by candlelight, except making cases. Quickmatch, especially,
ought to be kept locked up, so that nobody can get to it.
Never put squibs, crackers, &c., into the pockets: a stray spark might
ignite the whole, and cause most serious mischief.
FUSES.
_ROMAN CANDLE._
+---------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|13|14|
+---------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Sulphur | 4| 2| 3| 1| 1| 2| 7| 3| 4| 6| 8| 3| 8| -|
|Charcoal | 3| 3| 3| 2| 1| 3| 8| 1| 1| 7| 9| 3|11| 2|
|Nitre | 8| 2| 8| 4| 3| 9|21| 4| 5|18|18|10|32| 1|
|Meal powder | 8| 8| 3| 3| 2| 4|12| 5| 4| 4| 4| 7| -| 3|
+---------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
_ROCKET._
+---------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|13|14|
+---------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Sulphur | 1| 1|12| 4| 8| 4| 2| 4| 2| 2| 1| 1| 8| 1|
|Charcoal | 4| 2|17| 5|11| 7| 4| 8|12| 8| 2| 2|27| 2|
|Nitre | 8| 5|50|16|32|16| 9|16|20|16| 4| 4|36| 4|
|Meal powder | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 3| 1| 1| 1| 2| 6| 2|
|Steel-filings | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 1|
+---------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
_BURSTING FIRE._
+---------------+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3|
+---------------+--+--+--+
|Meal powder | 1| 1| 8|
|Grain powder F | -| 1| -|
|Charcoal | -| -| 1|
+---------------+--+--+--+
_STARTING FIRE._
+---------------+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2|
+---------------+--+--+
|Charcoal | 1| 3|
|Meal powder | 8|16|
|Sulphur | -| 4|
|Nitre | -| 6|
+---------------+--+--+
_WHEEL AND FIXED CASE._
+----------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|
+----------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Meal powder | 8|24| 8|36| 4|18| 8|12|42| 4|16|10|13|16|20|40|
|Sulphur | 1| 1| -| 1| -| -| 1| 1| 3| -| -| -| 1| -| 1| 4|
|Charcoal | 1| 4| 1| 4| 1| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 3|
|Nitre | 2| 3| -| -| 2| 2| 1| 3| 8| -| 2| -| 1| -| -|24|
|Steel-filings | -| -| -| -| -| 5| 3| 3| 5| 1| 5| -| -| -| -| 6|
|Vegetable black | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 1| 2| -| -| 1|
|Realgar | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 1| -| -| 1|
|Litharge | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 3| 3| 2|
+----------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
_SQUIB AND SERPENT._
+----------------+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3|
+----------------+--+--+--+
|Sulphur | 1| -| -|
|Charcoal | 1| 1| -|
|Nitre | 2| -| -|
|Meal powder | 8| 8| 4|
|Steel-filings | -| -| 1|
+----------------+--+--+--+
_PINWHEEL._
+---------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|13|
+---------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Sulphur | 1| 3| 5| 3| 7|14| 4| 4|2 |2 |3 |2 | -|
|Nitre | 1| 4| 9| 5| 9|16| 8| 4| 5| 2| 3| 2| -|
|Meal powder | 2| 9|15| 8|20|32|26|16|36|26|35|18| 3|
|Sulphuret of Antimony| -| -| -| -| 1| 3| 1| -| -| -| -| -| -|
|Beech sawdust, fine | -| -| -| -| -| -| 1| -| -| -| -| -| -|
|Oxalate of Soda | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 3| -| -| -| -| -|
|Litharge, fine | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 2| -| -| -| -|
|Orpiment, or Realgar | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 2| 3| -| -|
|Vegetable black | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 1| 2| -| -|
|Nitrate of Lead | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 3| 1|
+---------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
_SAXON._
+----------------------+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3|
+----------------------+--+--+--+
|Sulphur | 1| 3| 5|
|Nitre | 1| 4| 9|
|Meal powder | 2| 9|15|
+----------------------+--+--+--+
_FIVE-POINTED STAR._
+----------------------+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2|
+----------------------+--+--+
|Meal powder | 3| -|
|Sulphur | 8| 2|
|Nitre |12| 5|
|Sulphuret of Antimony | 1| 1|
+----------------------+--+--+
_SPUR-FIRE, FOR FLOWER-POTS AND STAR-CANDLES._
+--------------------------------+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4|
+--------------------------------+--+--+--+--+
|Vegetable black | 7| 2| 3| 4|
|Sulphur |14| 5| 4|16|
|Realgar, or Sulphuret of Arsenic| 2| 1| 1| 2|
|Nitre |32|16|10|32|
|Meal powder | -| 3| -|17|
|Charcoal | -| -| -| 4|
+--------------------------------+--+--+--+--+
_TOURBILLION._
+-----------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|13|
+-----------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Sulphur | 1| 3| 3| 7| 3| 4| 4| 4| 2| 4| 1| 7| 4|
|Nitre | 4| 5|16|10| 8|32|17|17| 4| 8| 8|20|14|
|Charcoal | 2| 3| 8| 4| 3| 6| 4| 5| -| -| -| -| 3|
|Meal powder | 1|11| 8|24|16|32| -| -| 4| 9|10|23|13|
|Steel-filings | -| -| -| 8| 6| 5| -| -| -| -| -| -| 2|
|Cast Iron Borings| -| -| -| -| -| 8| 6| 8| 3| 4| 7|14| 5|
+-----------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
_BENGAL LIGHT._
+------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6|
+------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Sulphuret of Arsenic, Realgar, or Orpiment| 1| 1| 2| 1| -| -|
|Sulphuret of Antimony | -| -|10| 5| 1| 1|
|Minium, or Red Lead | -| -| 1| 1| -| -|
|Sulphur | 4| 2| 6| 3| 4| 2|
|Nitre |14| 6|24|14|14| 6|
+------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+
_BLUE LIGHT._
+----------------------+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2|
+----------------------+--+--+
|Nitre |12| 5|
|Sulphur | 4| 2|
|Meal powder | 3| -|
|Sulphuret of Antimony | 1| 1|
+----------------------+--+--+
_WASP LIGHT._
+------------------+--+
|Number | 1|
+------------------+--+
|Nitre |14|
|Sulphur | 5|
|Meal powder | 3|
|Realgar | 1|
+------------------+--+
_PORTFIRE._
+------------------+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4|
+------------------+--+--+--+--+
|Meal powder | 3| 1| 1| 5|
|Sulphur | 4| 2| 2| 8|
|Nitre |12| 4| 6|25|
+------------------+--+--+--+--+
_SHELL FUSE._
+------------------+--+
|Number | 1|
+------------------+--+
|Meal powder | 4|
|Nitre | 2|
|Sulphur | 1|
+------------------+--+
_GERBE._
+------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|
+------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Sulphur | 2| 3| -| 1| -| 2| 3| 2| 2| 2| -| -|
|Nitre | 2| 2| -| -| -|10| 6| 4| 9| 4| -| -|
|Meal powder |16|36| 4| 8|16| -| 9|16| 2| 2| 8| 3|
|Steel-filings | 1| 6| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -|
|Cast Iron Borings | 5| 8| 1| 3| 8| 7| 5| 8| 5| 3| -| -|
|Charcoal | -| -| -| -| 1| 2| 2| 1| 2| 2| -| -|
|Coke grains | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 1| -|
|Porcelain grains | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 1|
+------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
_TAILED, STREAMER, OR COMET STARS, FOR ROCKETS, SHELLS, AND ROMAN
CANDLES._
+----------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|
+----------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Vegetable black | 1| 3| 3| 6| -| -| -| -| 3|
|Charcoal | 2| 8| 2| 3| 1| 3| 6|12| 2|
|Sulphur | 5|24| 2| -| 2| 4| 1| 2| 2|
|Nitre | 5|24| 9| -| 8| 9|10|20| 9|
|Meal powder | 8|30| 6|16| -|20| 5| 7| 6|
|Oxalate of Soda | -| -| -| -| 4|12| -| -| -|
|Sulphuret of Antimony | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 4|
+----------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
_OILED TAILED STARS FOR ROCKETS AND SHELLS._
+----------------------+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3|
+----------------------+--+--+--+
|Charcoal | 9| 6| 2|
|Sulphur | 9| 5| 2|
|Nitre |32|18| 9|
|Meal powder |24|12| 5|
|Sulphuret of Antimony |16| 9| 4|
+----------------------+--+--+--+
To 1 ounce add twenty-four drops of boiled linseed oil: rub them
thoroughly together in a mortar; then spread out the mixture, for a few
days, to dry. When dry, mix with starch, dextrine solution, or gum
water, and chop into 3/8 or 1/2 inch cubical blocks.
_STEEL STARS FOR ROCKETS AND SHELLS._
+------------------+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4|
+------------------+--+--+--+--+
|Nitrate of Lead | 8|24|28| -|
|Chlorate of Potash| 3| 5| 6| 5|
|Charcoal | 2| 6| 6| 1|
|Steel-filings | 2| 6| 6| 3|
|Nitre | -| 4| 3| -|
|Shellac, fine | -| -| 1| -|
|Sulphur, washed | -| -| -| 1|
+------------------+--+--+--+--+
Mix together on paper, damp with lac solution, and chop into cubical
blocks. The composition may also be pumped into roman candle streamer
stars.
_PEARL STREAMER._
+----------------+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5|
+----------------+--+--+--+--+--+
|Nitre |12|26| 2| -| -|
|Charcoal | 5|11| 1| -| -|
|Zinc-filings |14|28| 4|10|15|
|Meal powder | -| -| 1| 8|12|
|Vegetable black | -| -| -| 1| 1|
+----------------+--+--+--+--+--+
_GOLD RAIN._
+------------+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5|
+------------+--+--+--+--+--+
|Sulphur | 1| 1| 1| -| -|
|Nitre | 2| 2| 2| -| -|
|Charcoal | 6| 1| 5| 1| 3|
|Meal powder |16| 6|18| 4| 8|
+------------+--+--+--+--+--+
_SILVER RAIN._
+---------------------+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4|
+---------------------+--+--+--+--+
|Steel-filings | 1| 2| 2| 3|
|Meal powder | 4| 7| 8| -|
|Nitre | -| 1| -| 2|
|Sulphur | -| -| 1| -|
|Charcoal | -| -| -| 3|
|Nitrate of Lead | -| -| -|10|
+---------------------+--+--+--+--+
_WHITE OR BRIGHT STARS._
+-----------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|
+-----------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Meal powder | 3| 3| -| 1| 1| 1| 1| 1| 3| -| -| -|
|Sulphur | 4| 6| 4| 2| 3| 2| 2| 1|11| 5| 7| -|
|Nitre | 8|14|14| 5|10| 6| 9| 4|48|24| -|18|
|Sulphuret of Antimony | -| -| 1| -| 3| -| 2| 1|10| 5| 6| 3|
|Sulphuret of Arsenic, Realgar| -| -| -| 1| -| 1| -| -| -| 3| 5| -|
|Minium, or Red Lead | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 2| -| -|
|Nitrate of Lead | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 3|
|Chlorate of Potash | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -|28|
|Shellac | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 5|
+-----------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
_SUGAR BLUES FOR STARS AND LANCES._
+---------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|
+---------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Chlorate of Potash | 8|36|40|40|36| 9|44|40| 6|
|Calomel | 4|18|24|24|12| 3|12| -| 5|
|Sugar | 3|12| 9|12| 4| 1|12| 9| 4|
|Sulphuret of Copper | 5|22|22|12| 4| 3|12|22| -|
|Stearine | -| 1| 2| 1| 3| 1| 1| 2| -|
|Oxychloride of Copper| -| -| -| 3| 4| 2| 5| -| -|
|Sal Ammoniac | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 6| -|
|Copper-filings | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 1|
+---------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
No substance combines better with salts of copper, than sugar. Sugar,
put into the bowl of a tobacco pipe, and placed in the fire, burns
fiercely, and is converted into caramel. This, poured on to a plate,
slightly smeared with butter, to prevent its sticking, hardens on
cooling; and is used for colouring brandy, vinegar, gravy, porter,
coffee, &c. Stearine must be scraped very fine from a composite candle.
_BLUE STARS AND LANCES WITHOUT SUGAR._
+--------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Number | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|13|14|15|
+--------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|Chlorate of | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Potash | 5|40|18|40| 6| 8|48|40|24|16|30|24| 8|22|40|
|Calomel | 4|20| 8|28| 2| 2|12|12| 6| 8|10| 8| 1| 8|20|
|Sulphuret of | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Copper | 4|20|10|28| -| 2| -| -| -| -| -| -| 3| 6|25|
|Shellac | 1| 5| -| -| -| -| 2| 2| 1| -| -| 1| -| -| 5|
|Oxychloride | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| of Copper | -| 2| -| -| -| -| 8| 9| 6| 5|10| 4| 1| 2| -|
|Dextrine | -| -| 5|10| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 2|
|Sulphur | -| -| -| -| 3| 4| 4| -| 1| 2| 3| 2| 3| 5| -|
|Stearine | -| -| -| 3| -| -| 1| 1| 2| 2| 3| 1| -| -| -|
|Black Oxide | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| of Copper | -| -| -| -| 1| 1| 1| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -|
|Copper-filings| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -|
|Sal Ammoniac | -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -|
+--------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+