| Nitre stars may be damped with gum water, dextrine solution, or thin starch. |
| They are often still further cheapened by being adulterated with salt, dextrine and the like. |
| For permanent paper, to twenty parts of this solution one part of starch or dextrine is added. |
| The dextrine should be dissolved in water in a glue pot, or some similar vessel, which will prevent burning. |
| Dr. Phin says that dextrine mixed with water makes a good label mucilage if a drop or two of glycerine be added to it. |
| There are about twenty-five stages or forms of dextrine between raw starch and digested starch or fruit sugar. |
