Iron oxide (FeO) resembles mercuric oxide in many respects, but it undergoes no change at all when heated.
The floor of the furnace F is somewhat concave and is made of iron covered with a layer of iron oxide.
The opposing reaction of hydrogen upon iron oxide must therefore cease, and the action of steam on the iron will go on until all of the iron has been transformed into iron oxide.
They generally contain 95% or more of iron oxide, with varying percentages of silica.
Because of the great consideration now being given to iron oxide paints, the writer secured a series of oxides widely used in this country, and has determined the most important constituents of each.
A good quality should contain 20% or over of iron oxide.
They are sometimes traversed by cracks occupied by iron oxide films.
Numerous points coloured byiron oxide occur in the section, and minute dust-like inclusions abound, which are doubtless water-pores.
The olivine phenocrysts may be fairly fresh with clean outlines, or they may be deeply eroded and stained by iron oxide, or they may be passing into serpentine.
He was strongly of opinion that this furnace was used for producing glazed wares by means of iron oxide.
Hence attempts to improve the colour of terra-cotta and bricks by the addition of commercial 'iron oxide' are seldom satisfactory, the finest material obtainable being far coarser than that occurring in clays.
The largest proportion of clay found in any one vase was 27 parts; there was also one instance given of 24 parts of iron oxide.
These variations were apparently regulated by the amount of iron oxide employed.
Generally speaking, it may be said that the colour depends on the proportion in which the constituent parts are mixed, a larger proportion of iron oxideproducing a redder, a larger proportion of lime a paler hue.
Deposits of bauxite usually contain as impurities silica (in the form of kaolin or hydrous aluminum silicate), iron oxide, and titanium minerals, in varying proportions.
Sea muds are commonly bluish and consolidate to bluish shales; the red coloring matter brought from land waste--iron oxide--is altered to other iron compounds by decomposing organic matter in the presence of sea water.
Yellow and red muds occur where the amount of iron oxide in the silt brought down to the sea by rivers is too great to be reduced, or decomposed, by the organic matter present.
Descending underground waters charged with oxygen have decomposed the iron carbonate and deposited the iron, in the form of iron oxide, in troughs of the strata where their downward progress was arrested by impervious floors.
They then clean all their master’s rifles and guns, and, as a rule, do this well.
The ground for a space of 30 yards showed unmistakable signs of the severe and evidently prolonged combat.
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