The higher grades and better qualities of metals are secured by refining processes.
God has not laid these metals on top of the ground, but has made it necessary that we should dig down into the earth and secure these metals at the cost of a great deal of labor.
Copper, lead, silver and all the important metals are mined in the Rocky Mountain district.
Bounties on certain minerals and metals are also given by some of the provinces.
All the metals are now well known to be combustible bodies, and may be made to burn as really as wood.
Gold may be known from all other metals by its bright yellow color, and its weight.
This would bring them in contact with the metals in a pure state, which would of course oxidize, and become earths.
It is also one of the metals employed to form Galvanic batteries.
It is a well known fact, that all the metals are fusible by heat, and many of them have been volatalized, and it is extremely probable all of them may be.
The reader is now desired to recollect that this class of metals constitutes the bases of the alkalis, and earths; which are simply metallic oxides or a combination of oxygen with the metals.
Recollect also that all these metals are inflammable, and some of them simply upon exposure to air and water.
It is now only necessary to introduce the water to this mass of melted matter, or any part of it, as in the first theory to the metals in their pure state, and we have the same results in all respects.
These metals are mostly mined on the black moorlands, which offer little attraction to the tourist, who gladly avoids them for the picturesque shores of Falmouth harbor.
We are told that Sheffield manufactures of metals began in the days of the Romans, and also that Sheffield-made arrows fell thickly at Crecy and Agincourt.
Although a gas, hydrogen is chemically similar to the metals in its nature, having the properties of a weak base.
The art or process of depositingmetals by electricity; electrotypy.
The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.
It is, in all acids, the base which is replaced by metals and basic radicals to form salts.
Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc.
Whether that demand can be general which increases price must, I apprehend, depend on whether the precious metals can be furnished as rapidly as other commodities.
I cannot discover what the value of the precious metals in different countries can have to do with this question.
An increase in the amount of gold and silver in a country will lead to an increased use of these metals for general purposes rather than to a proportionate fall in their value, there (II, III).
I expected that you would not quite agree with my plan of abolishing the metals from circulation; but the grounds on which you object to it may I think be answered, and then your objections would I hope be removed.
The fact is however against you, for we have supplied large sums when the metals have been absolutely banished from circulation.
No egg but differs from a chicken more Than metals in themselves.
Name the vexations, and the martyrisations Of metals in the work.
This mineral contains the metals aluminum and beryllium combined with the non-metal oxygen.
Unfortunately the addition of lead or other heavy metals (such as thallium) makes the product very soft and also very subject to attack by gases such as are always present in the atmosphere of cities.
The metallic part consists of aluminum, and there are present also the non-metals fluorine and hydrogen.
Metals also suggest that another source of their wealth was that of the middleman.
Of these metals the only one found in unworked form, in what are practically pigs, is bronze.
This in the form of aes rude has frequently been found in considerable quantities, and the larger and better formed bits of metals known as aes signatum are not rare.
It is soluble in water, and the solution dissolves manymetals (zinc, iron, &c.
The imports are woollen and cotton piece-goods, metals and petroleum.
In early times, a shaft was sunk here, by the French, and tradition tells of large quantities of the precious metals being obtained.
After expending large sums in digging and exploring for the precious metalswithout success, Crosat gave up his privilege to the king, in 1717.
That all metals sink in water, was an uniform experience, from the origin of the human race to the discovery of potassium in the present century by Sir Humphry Davy.
Moreover, it is limited, and needs the precious metalsas a solid foundation whereon to rest, or the fabric built upon it will be the fabric of a dream, as was that of Law in France at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
The noble metals would be too costly, the baser would corrode; and with either the value of the plates as metal would be a standing danger to the deposit.
Try to get possession of as many precious metals as you can.
A book that tells many interesting things about coal, salt, iron, rare metals and precious stones.
The Asiatic, American and African supply of precious metals and the raw materials of these tropical countries became a monopoly of the state which happened to own that particular colony.
In practice, the Mercantile system worked out as follows: To get the largest surplus of precious metals a country must have a favourable balance of export trade.
Every find of "values" in a placer is unquestioned evidence that somewhere, above the present deposit, there originally existed primary depositions containing the valuable metals or minerals.
The minerals and metals are, therefore, of a very permanent character.
The test of yielding the metal or metals at a profit seems to me, in the last analysis, the only feasible one to employ.
However, othermetals are believed to have been mined, upon commercial scales, before the Christian era.
There are so many metals and minerals sought for the markets of the world today that we see there are many fields of study and practice open to prospectors.
An excavation that will produce coal, metals or gems is not necessarily a mine.
Under the classification of underground, tabular deposits such as veins or lodes, no matter in what metals their values are found, Mr. T.
The precious metals, gold, silver, and platinum, are sold by the Troy ounce: the base metals are all handled and dealt with on avoirdupois weights.
Mines extracting different metals or different kinds of coal will find it necessary to keep quite unlike records.
In historical writings, many of which date back into antiquity, there are allusions, as well as direct statements, concerning the art and tasks of obtaining valuable metals from Mother Earth.
The elaboration of metals forms an exception, and so far as we know the only one.
The raw materials required for the industries of Northern France are discharged there, whilst iron ore, oil and metals are exported.
It is a very fine piece of Renaissance workmanship in different metals studded with gems (Photo opposite).
Vessels of the same precious metals were used at their tables; their tents were made of the most costly stuffs, and were even adorned with precious stones.
Hence, generally, the sources or root substances of the best and most efficient mordants are the metals of high specific appetite or valency.
Their soldiers were in considerable degree free mercenaries, who had a right to a share in the spoils, and who cared much less for hoards of precious metals than for many other things.
There remained few who loved great stores of precious metals who had power enough to accumulate them.
The measure of values or the general level of prices throughout the world will be so adjusted that the metals used as currency, or as the basis of substitutes for currency, will be just sufficient for the purpose.
The precious metals had, in these Eastern empires, a high value per unit, since so large a portion of the social energy of motivation attached itself to them.
I do not believe that we have sufficient agreement among the best students of the statistics of the preciousmetals to justify any statistical conclusions regarding the laws governing the industrial consumption of gold and silver.
Irritant--practically all the metals and the metalloids (I.
Treat this with excess of bisulphate of sodium, then saturate with sulphuretted hydrogen until metals are thrown down as sulphides.
The capital and labour consumed in procuring a given quantity of the precious metals would have probably produced a higher marketable equivalent, if coal and iron had been the object.
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