Manual of dental surgery and pathology . )buric acid; some recommend Fi?. Pestle and mortar for breaking up the copper amalgam when heated. For this purpose thevshould be constructed of either agate or glass, as the compound adheres to Wedgwoods com-position. soap and water, until no longer any black fluid can be obtainedfrom it, when the acid or soap should be removed with cleanwater, and if the latter quite dissolved out with alcohol, andthe amalgam thoroughly dried between folds of soft linen. [It has been some years since well-known amalgam workershave objected to washing as likely t
Manual of dental surgery and pathology . )buric acid; some recommend Fi?. Pestle and mortar for breaking up the copper amalgam when heated. For this purpose thevshould be constructed of either agate or glass, as the compound adheres to Wedgwoods com-position. soap and water, until no longer any black fluid can be obtainedfrom it, when the acid or soap should be removed with cleanwater, and if the latter quite dissolved out with alcohol, andthe amalgam thoroughly dried between folds of soft linen. [It has been some years since well-known amalgam workershave objected to washing as likely to make a less perfectfilling, from the impossibility of removing the water or fluidin time to employ the amalgam. It is even claimed that thediscoloration under an amalgam tilling, is in a measure preserva-tive, tending to till up the dentinal tubuli; particularly is stresslaid upon this in very soft teeth with marked porosity of thedentine.] A quantity of mercury may generally, after the amalgam isdried, be squeezed out through wash-leather, leaving it in analmost powdery c
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