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ALUMEN Alum.
ALUNITE Alum stone.
ALUMINIFEROUS Containing alum.
ALUMISH Somewhat like alum.
ALUM SCHIST Alt. of Alum shale
SLAM The refuse of alum works.
ALUMINIZE To treat or impregnate with alum; to alum.
ROCHING CASK A tank in which alum is crystallized from a solution.
ALUMINOUS Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.
HALOTRICHITE An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.
ALUM To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.
WHITLEATHER Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.
DOGGER A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
AMPELITE An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.
ALUNOGEN A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt.
ALUM SHALE A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.
ROCHE ALUM A kind of alum occuring in small fragments; -- so called from Rocca, in Syria, whence alum is said to have been obtained; -- also called rock alum.
TAW To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
MORDANT Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.
PYROPHORUS ... phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finel...
SAXIFRAGACEOUS ...(Saxifragaceae) of which saxifrage is the type. The order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberrie...
SHAMOYING ...her, which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily u...
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