In the mint of Calcutta, an ounce of fine gold is supposed to be worth fifteen ounces of fine silver, in the same manner as in Europe.
In the market of Europe, in the French coin and in the Dutch coin, an ounce of fine gold exchanges for about fourteen ounces of fine silver.
About the middle of the last century, it came to be regulated, between the proportions of one to fourteen and one to fifteen; that is, an ounce of fine gold came to be supposed worth between fourteen and fifteen ounces of fine silver.
The usual quotation in the United States is per ounce of fine silver.
The process recommended in the old French official report is as follows:--twelve grains of the gold intended to be assayed must be mixed with thirty grains of fine silver, and cupelled with 108 grains of lead.
A dollar contains by the assays, which I have been able to get, about three hundred and seventythree grains of fine silver, and that at the mint price would be fourteen hundred and forty units.
The money unit will be equal to a quarter of a grain of fine silver in coined money.
It would contain twentyfive grains of fine silver, to which may be added two grains of copper, and the whole would weigh one pennyweight and three grains.
The standard silver nitrate solution is made by dissolving 5 grams of fine silver in 50 c.
A standard solution of silver equivalent to the dilute salt solution is made by dissolving 1 gram of fine silver in 10 c.
Fine silver is extremely ductile, and may be drawn into the very finest wire without breaking, and almost without annealing.
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