Iron to be buried in damp earth may be painted with a mixture of 100 parts of resin (colophony), 25 parts of gutta-percha, and 50 parts of paraffin, to which 20 parts of magnesia and some mineral oil have been added. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference
By this process, the solid resin of colophony is split up into water, various resinic acids or naphthas, and resin oils of various specific gravities and consistencies, all of which are separated from each other into separate containers which are ready to receive them. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
Hypoallergenic formulations free of formaldehydes, toluene and colophony rosin. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Its pine-trees supplied a rosin or colophony highly valued for the strings of musical instruments. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
I would like to know if it ` s possible the laten and specific heat of bee wax, coconut oil and colophony. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The most celebrated resin bears the name of mani; and of this we saw masses of several hundred-weight, resembling colophony and mastic. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Keep each thing separate; and melt the wax, and then put in the incense and then the colophony, make a mixture of it and put it on the sore place. From Wordnik.com. [The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete] Reference
UPVC tri-ply heat insulation tile is made from overseas PVC colophony with UV ultraviolet absorbent, antioxidant and modifier, which make it great resistance to fungus& humidity, can be recyclable and color long lasting, also extend its service life effectively. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
The reddish skin of the torso, as the air came in contact with it, assumed a bluish bloom, and there was visible on the side the cut through which had been drawn the entrails, and from which escaped, like the sawdust of a ripped-up doll, the sawdust of aromatic wood mixed with resin in grains that looked like colophony. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference
For he went about the work with such diligence that he used to make the coarse rough-cast of lime with a mixture of mastic and colophony, which, after melting it all together over the fire and applying it to the wall, he would then cause to be smoothed over with a mason's trowel made red-hot, or rather white-hot, in the fire; and his works have therefore been able to resist the damp and to preserve their colour very well without suffering any change. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi] Reference
Boyle, he obtained them with glass films; he also procured them with bubbles of pitch, rosin, colophony, turpentine, solutions of several gums, as gum arabic in water, any glutinous liquor, as wort, wine, spirit of wine, oyl of turpentine, glare of snails, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873] Reference
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