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Fixed alkalies

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potash and soda.

See also: Alkali



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You can obtain a color very similar to that of fumed oak and very much like that produced on white oak by fuming with ammonia on certain varieties of oak, chestnut, mahogany, gum, pine, and some other woods, by preparing the surface with a tannic-acid or pyrogallic-acid solution, and later on giving a coat of fixed alkalies in an aqueous solution instead of fuming.
Fixed alkalies, such as sodium and calcium hydroxides, are used in depilatories.
 
 
 
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