APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XIV.

NOTE (p. 404).

For those more particularly interested, we append a full analysis of the slag, taken from Messrs Stead and Ribsdale's paper in the 'Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute,' 1887, vol. i. p. 222:—

Lime41.58
Magnesia6.14
Alumina2.57
Peroxide of iron8.54
Protoxide of iron13.62
Protoxide of manganese3.79
Protoxide of vanadium1.29
Silica7.38
Sulphur }.23
Calcium }.31
Sulphuric anhydride.12
Phosphoric acid14.36
99.93

CHAPTER XV.

POTASSIC MANURES.