_DELIMING, BATING, PUERING AND DRENCHING._
Methods of removing lime and reducing swelling -- Use of acids --
Lactic, acetic and formic acids -- Boral -- Sodium bisulphate --
Boric (boracic) acid -- Borax -- “Pulling down” process -- Use of
ammonium chloride and sulphate -- Pickling solutions -- Drenching with
lactic acid -- Metabisulphite of soda -- Washing out lime, French
process -- Nesbitt’s process -- Use of carbonic acid -- Carbolic acid
-- Cresotinic acid -- Oxynaphthoic acid -- “Anticalcium” -- “Acrilene
bating acid” -- “C.T. Bate” -- Use of sulphides and polysulphides --
Babool pods -- Bran-drenching -- Bating and puering -- Causes of
bating effect -- Pepsin -- Trypsin, or Pancreatin -- Wood’s researches
-- Erodin -- Palmer’s experiments -- Other artificial bates --
Relative effect of dog- and pigeon-dung bates -- Analysis of dungs --
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