Show metal protected by OIL if the method of charging cottonseed oil with lead which is said to have been discovered is found practicable the avalne valne of that abundant product will be greatly increased the process as at present defined is of the utmost simplicity one gallon of pure cottonseed oil is placed in a suitable iron vessel into which twenty pounds of molten lead are poured after a stirring the lead separates into globules glo bules and when the oil has been poured off after cooling there is found to be about seventeen pounds of lead the remainder having been absorbed by the oil on the lead being again melted and the operation repeated to the fifth pouring the amount of lead absorbed being less at each succeeding pouring the total amount of lead absorbed is about ten pounds the oil thus charged with lead is then used as a paint being applied in the ordinary way to metallic surfaces it is claimed that thia liquid which adheres closely and becomes very hard is especially useful in protecting metals from oxidation or corrosion new york telegram |