The magnesite readily gives up carbonic acid, which fills the tube and sweeps the mercury vapour before it.
As carbonate it occurs in large quantity as magnesite (MgCO{3}), which is the chief source of magnesia.
This tendency is overcome by avoiding draughts and regulating the heat; or by placing a lump of magnesite in the flask, which acts by evolving carbonic acid and so producing a steady outward pressure.
This mineral, identical in composition with calc spar, but whose crystalline form is entirely different, occurs in this locality in veins hardly recognizable from the magnesite or dolomite, and running into dolomite.
The characteristics of magnesite I have detailed under that head under Pavilion Hill, Staten Island; but it may be well to repeat them briefly here.
It differs, perhaps, as I have before explained, from magnesite in containing lime besides magnesia, and from calc spar by the vice versa.
E, Magnesite bricks on which the hot billets slide forward.
The lining of the crucible may be of either magnesite (MgO) or chromite (FeO.
Like the Heroult furnace, the Kjellin furnace may be lined with either magnesite or chromite, and it may be tilted for the purpose of pouring off slag and metal.
For every ton of steel produced five pounds of magnesite is needed.
Magnesite mines are worked by an Anglo-Greek company in Euboea.
Magnesite is a product of alteration of magnesium silicates, and occurs as veins and patches in serpentine, talc-schist or dolomite-rock.
The salt may be obtained from Kieserite: formerly it was prepared by treating magnesite or dolomite with sulphuric acid.
The large magnesite deposits of Austria and of Washington, as well as those of Quebec, occur as lenses in beds of dolomite (calcium-magnesium carbonate).
Since the war, magnesite shipped from Canada and overseas has again replaced the American product in the eastern market to some extent.
Magnesite is also reported to occur in sedimentary beds in which it was primarily deposited in its present form and has not undergone later alteration.
Magnesite is formed both by this process and by the further breaking down of the serpentine itself.
In making magnesite bricks, it is calcined or "dead-burned" to drive out the carbon dioxide.
Dolomite, which may be thought of as a magnesite rock high in lime, occurs in large quantities close to many points of consumption.
The commoner type ofmagnesite deposits is represented by those of Greece, California, Venezuela, and many other countries.
Austria-Hungary and Greece are the large European producers of magnesite and Scotland supplies a little.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "magnesite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alabaster; asphalt; mineral
