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The Principles of Leather Manufacture

Note 58 — Chapter IX · THE PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF THE HIDE-FIBRE.

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Instead of using salted liquors, the skins maybe “depickled” by a bath of whitening and water, borax, or some other mildly alkaline solution before tanning.

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