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Paperback Two Thousand Formulas, Recipes, & Trade Secrets: The Classic "Do-It-Yourself" Book of Practical Everyday Chemistry Book

ISBN: 0922915954

ISBN13: 9780922915958

Two Thousand Formulas, Recipes & Trade Secrets: The Classic "Do-It-Yourself" Book of Practical Everyday Chemistry

Reprinted from the 1930s, this intriguing reference furnishes detailed instructions on how to make adhesives, paints and inks, garden insecticides and weed killers, lubricants, photo developers, polishes, cosmetics, and many other household products. Original.

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Customer Reviews

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Rated 5 stars
Very cool on several different levels.

Have you ever run out of gin? I have and I learned on my own how to make instant fake gin using vodka and herbs. Little did I know that the real recipe was in this book. Very cool. Very useful. I'm not kidding! Page 127. A lot of things have been banned over the 73 years since this book was first published. So what? You can make them yourself now. Want to make some absinthe? Page 122. How about your own cheesy fireworks?...

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Rated 5 stars
A vast and surprising array of concoctions

Can the at-home person actually use formulas to make glue, paint, crayons and more? Two Thousand Formulas, Recipes & Trade Secrets reprints a 1930s original and takes readers to an era where home remedy formulas were more readily accessible to the public. From cosmetics and drugs to lubricants, oils and construction materials, a vast and surprising array of concoctions is provided for the chemistry student interested in...

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