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1845 AD (search for this): book 8, chapter 73
ii." which, if soaked in vinegar,"I have macerated unbleached flax in vinegar saturated with salt, and after compression have obtained a felt, with a power of resistance quite comparable with that of the famous armour of Conrad of Montferrat; seeing that neither the point of a sword, nor even balls discharged from fire-arms, were able to penetrate it." Memoir on the substance called Plina, by Papadopoulo-Vretos, on the Mein. presented to the Royal Academy of In- scriptions and Belles Lettres, 1845 , as quoted by Littré. is capable of resisting iron even; and, what is still more, after having gone through the last process,Pliny probably conceived that by the removal of all the grease from the wool, or the "purgamentum," it became less combustible.—B. wool will even resist fire; the refuse, too, when taken out of the vat of the scourer, is used for making mattresses,"Tomentum;" an Epigram of Martial, B. xiv. E. 160, explains the meaning of this word.—B. an invention, I fancy, of the Gaul