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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He learned, among other things, what alum served for, besides dyeing.
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He sprayed a picric acid and alum solution into the noses of forty-six hundred Alabamians, to no good end.
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Here he also made alum and sulphuric acid by the lead chamber process.
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Much of the long-distance trade was in commodities connected with the cloth industry, notably dyestuffs such as woad and alum .
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Spence's product was an ammonium alum which gradually displaced the potash alum which had been made principally at Whitby.
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The treatment so far had been innocuous: quinine pills and injections of alum water.
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Whit- or white-leather was leather that had been dressed with alum , and it was often horse-leather.