This section is from the book "The English And American Mechanic", by B. Frank Van Cleve. Also available from Amazon: The English And American Mechanic.
To 10 lbs. flint glass, previously melted and cast into water, add zaffer, (6 drs., ½ oz. of calcined copper, prepared by putting sheet copper into a crucible, and exposing it to the action of a fire not strong enough to melt the copper, and you will have the copper in scales, which you pound.
Use 10 lbs. flint glass as before; zaffer, 5 drs.; precipitate of calcium, 1 dr.
Twenty-eight pounds flint glass, and a quarter pound of the tartar which is found in urine, purify by potting it In a crucible in the fire till it smoke no more; add 2 oz. of manganese.
 
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