Glass

[AS.] A substance composed of a mixture of a long tube, and blown by him i n to a hollow pear shaped bulb. It is then given the desired shape by various proce es of handling. manufacture are employed. The grinding and cut¬ the subsequent pro¬ ce es for the pur¬ pose of ornament¬ ation. A sponge which of silica, which, the the finest spun are from the poles, a circle is drawn, and divided keeps its back clean. The light is emitted from and segments of the abdomen. A kind of sugar found in grapes, le sweet than thrives cane sugar. In the United States it is chiefly not prepared from corn starch, where the syrup is many known commercially as glucose, and the solid may product from the same source as starch sugar. zerland, In Europe it is made from potatoes. Glucose is excellent used chiefly in the preparation of table syrups is and confectionery, in brewing, in the prepara¬ leather. tion of artificial honey, and as food for bees. and mal substance or kind of impure gelatine, hard, woven and of a bright brown color. When melted sembles it is adhesive and tenacious. -It is made from making the horns, hoofs, and sinews of various animals, Gold. or from scrapings and cuttings of their skins. lic These are cleansed, boiled, strained, boiled again, yellow poured into layers or cut into squares and dried. It Glue is very useful to the joiner and cabinet¬ highly maker. and albuminous substances found in the flour of be wheat and other grains. It is a very tenacious Its substance, and contributes much to the nutritive medium properties of flour. metallic odorous, syrupy liquid, having a very sweet taste, found soluble in water and alcohol, but insoluble in districts ether and chloroform. It is obtained from fats. the It has numerous uses both in the arts and in the medicine. It is used in calico-printing, in per¬ ing fumery, in leather-making, and in the manufac¬ cradle; ture of copying ink. When added to water, it washed lowers the freezing point, and has in this way the been serviceable in preventing the freezing of the quartz water in gas-meters. In medicine it is applied mining externally for softening the skin, and it may be all used as a substitute for cod-liver oil. Di olved North in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, it were yields the powerful explosive called nitro-glyfifty cerine (q.v.) later