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Show :: DIPPING INTO SCIENCE t The Early Match T Although in 1S0D mutches T were made by dipping wood In- X to sulphur and tipping them T with chlorate of potash and T .. sugar, these were abandoned T " because they had to he dipped .. into sulphuric acid, the combi- X nation causing tlie lire. Th:s t - acid was too dangerous and I clumsy for common use. Soon T after -came the forerunner of I our present match, the product T ; of John Walker,.. an Kngtishrnan. -j- !" Vt". X927,. by Western Newspaper Union.) T |