Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

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Colored Fires (Red phur carbonate of strontia)

Red. phur, 23 carbonate of strontia.

Sixty-one per cent. chlorate of potash, 16 sul- Purple-red.

Sixty-one per cent. chlorate of potash, 16 sulphur, 23 chalk. Rose-red.

Sixty-one per cent. chlorate of potash, 16 sul. phur, 23 chloride of calcium.

Orange-red.

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