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Topic: Gold (colour)


  
 Buckingham Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George IV was advised on the interior design by Sir Charles Long, who advocated the widespread use of brightly coloured scagliola and blue and pink lapis, with sculptured plaster panels set in the ceilings.
George IV died in 1830, and the colourful and heavily gilded present state and semi-state rooms were not completed until the reign of King William IV.
Devised as a memorial to Queen Victoria, this route is used by the cavalcades and motorcades of all visiting heads of state, and by the Royal Family on state occasions such as the annual State Opening of Parliament.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buckingham_Palace   (6371 words)

  
 METAL (through Fr. fro... - Online Information article about METAL (through Fr. fro...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Yet tons of caustic soda are fused daily in chemical works in iron pots without thereby suffering contamination, which seems to show that (clean) iron, like gold and silver, is at-tacked only by the joint action of fused alkali and air, the influence of the latter being of course minimized in large-scale operations.
Sulphur.—Amongst the better known metals, gold and aluminium are the only ones which, when heated with sulphur or in sulphur vapour remain unchanged.
All chlorides, except those of silver and mercury (and, of course, those of gold and platinum), are oxidized by steam at high temperatures, with elimination of hydrochloric acid.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /MEC_MIC/METAL_through_Fr_from_Lat_metal.html   (5890 words)

  
 Tortoiseshell Glass from the Glass Encyclopedia
This very complicated process produced a beautiful type of art glass, and as usual with 19th century inventions, others invented simpler processes or copied the original.
The yellow staining, for example, was not needed if one of the glass bulbs was a pale honey gold colour.
There are reports of tortoishell glass being reproduced in Italy recently, but the products were described as being very thick and clumsy.
www.glassencyclopedia.com /tortoiseshellglass.html   (628 words)

  
 ANTIQUE RESTORATION
Glazes and layered colour - Some great effects with depth and complexity and colour
The use of fl, grey and white, Effect of mixtures on lightfastness and permanence
Colour and texture of surface, Texture of pigments, where you paint
antiquerestorers.com /Articles/GENERAL_ARTICLES.htm   (877 words)

  
 Military history
ABBOTT P. and J MA Tamplin British Gallantry Awards with 5 coloured plates and a very large number of half-tone illustrations (some full-page) in the text; pub.
As an infantry unit, its fl and gold colour patch became recognised by friend and foe alike as a symbol of courage and dash in battle.
with, historic b/w photographs of officers, men, groups, camps and events, including the colours and badge in full colour, battalion lineage, battle honours, succession lists, nominal rolls, honours and awards, acknowledgements, subscriber list and index.
www.bspgallery.com.au /military.htm   (2792 words)

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