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| 37. | To clean silver braids in the same manner, or even embroidered work, making them white and beautiful again | 42 |
| 38. | A precious stain-soap to remove all stains from clothes = = = | 43 |
| 39. | To quickly make a water In this context, "a water" refers to a liquid chemical solution or distilled spirit. to remove all stains from clothes = = = = = | 44 |
| 40. | To make the finest English tombac Tombac: A brass alloy with a high copper content, valued for its gold-like color and used in clockmaking and jewelry., which equals the color of gold, does not tarnish, and is malleable for chasing Treiben: The metalworking technique of forming shapes by hammering from the reverse side. = | ibid. original Latin: "ibidem," meaning on the same page. |
| 41. | White tombac, which can be chased as finely as silver and used for the most beautiful work = = = = = | 46 |
| 42. | To melt tin and brass together quite smoothly outside of the fire This likely refers to a chemical process or a specific flux that allows for lower-temperature alloying., for casting all sorts of white metal objects | 47 |
| 43. | To quickly remove tin from tinned iron without spending a penny, and without melting the iron or damaging the workmanship = = = | 48 |
| 44. | A whitening dip original: "Ansud." A boiling solution used for the surface treatment of metals, particularly for coating or cleaning. for white pins, | 49 |
| 45. | To examine a true and genuine gold streak on the touchstone Probier-Stein: A hard, dark stone used to test the purity of precious metals by comparing the color of a streak left on its surface. = | 50 |
| 46. | To investigate the fine silver streak on the touchstone = = = = | ibid. |
| 47. | To remove gold from gilded copper and brass vessels without harm or damage to them = = = | 51 |
| 48. | To remove gold from silver vessels without damaging them = = | 52 |
| 49. | To remove and scrape the same from old picture frames. = = = | ibid. |
| 50. | To distill the proper sweet Spirit of Salt Spiritum salis: An archaic name for hydrochloric acid. original Latin: "spiritum salis.", to dissolve gold with it, and to use it for medicine = = = | 54 |