This section is from the "Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas Recipes Processes" encyclopedia, by Norman W. Henley and others.
Creosote......... 40 gallons
Rosin, powdered.. . 56 pounds
Caustic soda lye,38° Tw............ 9 gallons
Boiling water..... 12 gallons
Methylated spirit. . 1 gallon
Black treacle...... 14 pounds
Melt the rosin and add the creosote; run in the lyes; then add the matter and methylated spirit mixed together, and add the treacle; boil all till dissolved and mix well together.
Hot water........ 120 pounds
Caustic soda lye, 38° B.............. 120 pounds
Rosin............ 300 pounds
Creosote.......... 450 pounds
Boil together the water, lye, and rosin, till dissolved; turn off steam and stir in the creosote; keep on steam to nearly boiling all the time, but so as not to boil over, until thoroughly incorporated.
Fresh - made soap (hard yellow) .... 7 pounds
Gas tar............ 21 pounds
Water, with 2 pounds soda............ 21 pounds
Dissolve soap (cut in fine shavings) in the gas tar; then add slowly the soda and water which has been dissolved.
Rosin............. 1 cwt.
Caustic soda lye, 18° B............... 16 gallons
Black tar oil........ 1/2 gallon
Nitro-naphthalene dissolved in boiling water (about 1/2 gallon)........ 2 pounds
Melt the rosin, add the caustic lye; then stir in the tar oil and add the nitronaphthalene.
Camphor.......... 1 ounce
Carbolic acid (75 per cent)........ 12 ounces
Aqua ammonia..... 10 drachms
Soft salt water...... 8 drachms
To be diluted when required for use.
Heavy tar oil...... . 10 gallons
Caustic soda dissolved in 5 gallons water 600° F..... 30 pounds
Mix the soda lyes with the oil, and heat the mixture gently with constant stirring; add, when just on the boil, 20 pounds of refuse fat or tallow and 20 pounds of soft soap; continue the heat until thoroughly saponified, and add water gradually to make up 40 gallons. Let it settle; then decant the clear liquid.
 
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