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This is more particularly to be noted in the case of black writing inks otherwise known as the tanno-gallate of iron inks [gallic and gallotanic acid obtained from nut-galls, sulphate of iron, (green copperas) and some gummy vehicle] The variations would appear to be largely due to the difference in quality of the gall-nuts, treatment, and temperature of the atmosphere; perhaps, however, not so much to-day as it was ten or twenty years ago, when to make ink of this character boiling processes were employed.
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Om veeradhwajaaya vidmahae vighna hastaaya dheemahi tanno bhouma prachodayaat
Gemology Red Coral: Wear Ring or Mala to Mitigate the Negative Effects of Mars in Your Horoscope 2009
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AUM aanjaneyaaya vid-mahe vaayu-putraayaya dheemahi tanno hanumatah prachodayaat
Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009
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Zemzemiyah, a goat-skin water-bag, which, especially when new, communicates to its contents a ferruginous aspect and a wholesome, though hardly an attractive, flavour of tanno-gelatine.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Saying Kalikayai and vidmahe, then say shmashanavasinyai dhimahi, and then tanno ghore pracodayat.
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At the commencement of the nineteenth century we find them making tanno-gallate of iron inks to which were added extractive matter from logwood and other materials to form thick fluids for shipment to Brazil, India and the countries where brushes or reeds were used as writing instruments.
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The old "Davids 'Steel Pen Ink" continues to be manufactured from the original formula and is the only tanno-gallate of iron ink they make, without "added" color.
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It must now be evident that there can be no material difference of opinions as to what has been so clearly and conclusively established, viz. that ink which contains a base of tanno-gallate of iron (without "added" color) is a permanent ink, and the length of its durability and continuing pristineness can be disturbed only by inferior quality of constituents, wrong methods of admixture and its future environment.
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With hardly in exception the best tanno-gallate of iron ( "gall") inks are now "cold" made.
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Many inks, therefore, when fresh made, yielded durable writings; but when the ink became old, the tanno-gallate of iron separated, and the durability of the ink was destroyed.
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