J. R. Partington Quote

We find Theophrastus (315 B. C.) describing... the manufacture of white lead... lead is placed in an earthen vessel over sharp vinegar, and after it has acquired some thickness of a kind of rust... they open the vessels and scrape it off.... repeating over and over again... til it is wholly gone. What has been scraped off they then beat to a powder and boil with water for a long time, and what at last settles to the bottom is white lead.


A Short History of Chemistry (1937)


We find Theophrastus (315 B. C.) describing... the manufacture of white lead... lead is placed in an earthen vessel over sharp vinegar, and after it...

We find Theophrastus (315 B. C.) describing... the manufacture of white lead... lead is placed in an earthen vessel over sharp vinegar, and after it...

We find Theophrastus (315 B. C.) describing... the manufacture of white lead... lead is placed in an earthen vessel over sharp vinegar, and after it...

We find Theophrastus (315 B. C.) describing... the manufacture of white lead... lead is placed in an earthen vessel over sharp vinegar, and after it...