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TO REMOVE INDELIBLE INK

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Ingredients

  • ten grains of cyanide of potassium
  • one ounce of water
  • five grains of iodine to one ounce of water
  • eight parts each bichloride of mercury
  • one hundred

Directions

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Most indelible inks contain nitrate of silver, the stain of which may be removed by first soaking in a solution of common salt, and afterward washing with ammonia. Or use solution of ten grains of cyanide of potassium and five grains of iodine to one ounce of water, or a solution of eight parts each bichloride of mercury and chloride of ammonium in one hundred and twenty-five parts of water.

By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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