"Oxalate" Quotes from Famous Books
... was well marked, extending down the tentacles for a length equal to that of the glands. After 2 hrs. the contents of almost all the cells in all the tentacles were broken up into masses of protoplasm. A leaf was immersed in a solution of one part of oxalate of ammonia to 146 of water; and after 24 m. some, but not a conspicuous, change could be seen within the cells beneath the glands. After 47 m. plenty of spherical masses of protoplasm were formed, and these extended down the tentacles for about the length ... — Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin
... are a recent advance in photographic printing with iron salts, the process which has been worked out and patented by W. Willis, Jr., being a development of such printing. Its principle is that a solution of ferrous oxalate in neutral potassium oxalate is effective as a developer. A paper is coated with a solution of ferric oxalate and platinum salts and then exposed behind a negative. It is then floated in a hot solution of neutral potassium oxalate, ... — Crayon Portraiture • Jerome A. Barhydt
... with such metals as tin, iron, antimony, etc., it combines to form insoluble tannates; the tannic acid can be fixed on the cotton by immersion in a bath containing such fixing salts as tartar emetic, tin crystals, copperas, antimony fluoride, and antimony oxalate. The dyeing of cotton with the basic colours therefore resolves itself ... — The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics - A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student • Franklin Beech |