ELEMENTS OF METALLURGY.
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ART OF EXTRACTING METALS FROM THEIR ORES.
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General Contents.—Refractory Materials.—Fire-Clays.—Fuels, &c.—Aluminium.—Copper.—Tin.—Antimony.—Arsenic.—Zinc.—Mercury.—Bismuth.—Lead.—Iron.—Cobalt.—Nickel.—Silver.—Gold.—Platinum.
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PETROLEUM AND ITS PRODUCTS: A PRACTICAL TREATISE.
By Dr. BOVERTON REDWOOD, F.R.S.E., F.I.C., Assoc.R.C.S.,
Hon. Corr. Mem. of the Imperial Russian Technical Society; Mem. of the American Chemical Society; Adviser to the Home Office and to the Corporation of London under the Petroleum Acts, &c., &c.
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