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A Text-book of Assaying

A Text-book of Assaying

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Number of Chapters: 47

Length: 23 hours and 30 minutes

Language: English

This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At first our intention was to supply a description of those substances only which have a commercial value, but on consideration we have added short accounts of the rarer elements..."

The book's early chapters are wide-ranging, describing the general theory of assaying and a range of methods and reagents, with the later chapters describing analytical methods for different groups of metals and for some non-metallic substances. It includes many excellent illustrations of the scientific method, demonstrating the effects of changing the parameters of many of the assay techniques.

It was first published in 1889; this edition in 1904.

[The reader has omitted some mathematical examples, tables of data and descriptions of figures, where their inclusion would seem to over-complicate the text; and has attempted to describe many of the pieces of apparatus which are illustrated.] (Introduction by Peter Yearsley)

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Ch 1 - Introductory (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 2 - Dry Gravimetric Methods (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 3 - Wet Gravimetric Methods (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 4 - Volumetric Assays (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 5 - Weighing and Measuring (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 6 - Re-agents (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 7 - Formulae, Equations, etc. (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 8 - Specific Gravity (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 9, Part 1 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 9, Part 2 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 9, Part 3 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 9, Part 4 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 9, Part 5 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 9, Part 6 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 9, Part 7 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 9, Part 8 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 9, Part 9 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 9, Part 10 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 10, Part 1 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 10, Part 2 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 10, Part 3 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 10, Part 4 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 10, Part 5 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 10, Part 6 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 11, Part 1 - Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, Zinc, Cadmium (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 11, Part 2 - Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, Zinc, Cadmium (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 11, Part 3 - Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, Zinc, Cadmium (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 11, Part 4 - Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, Zinc, Cadmium (Peter Yearsley)
Ch12, Part 1 - Tin, Tungsten, Titanium (Peter Yearsley)
Ch12, Part 2 - Tin, Tungsten, Titanium (Peter Yearsley)
Ch12, Part 3 - Tin, Tungsten, Titanium (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 13, Part 1 - Manganese, Chromium, etc. (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 13, Part 2 - Manganese, Chromium, etc. (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 14, Part 1 - Earths, Alkaline Earths, Alkalies (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 14, Part 2 - Earths, Alkaline Earths, Alkalies (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 14, Part 3 - Earths, Alkaline Earths, Alkalies (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 15, Part 2 - Oxygen and Oxides - The Halogens (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 15, Part 1 - Oxygen and Oxides - The Halogens (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 15, Part 3 - Oxygen and Oxides - The Halogens (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 16 - Sulphur and Sulphates (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 17, Part 1 - Arsenic, Phosphorus, Nitrogen (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 17, Part 2 - Arsenic, Phosphorus, Nitrogen (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 18, Part 1 - Silicon, Carbon, Boron (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 18, Part 2 - Silicon, Carbon, Boron (Peter Yearsley)
Ch 18, Part 3 - Silicon, Carbon, Boron (Peter Yearsley)
Appendix B (Peter Yearsley)
Appendix C (Peter Yearsley)
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