The Romans were passionate gamblers, especially in the luxurious days of the Empire, and dicing was a favourite form, though it was forbidden except during the Saturnalia.
I did not see any specular ore in place in Washington Territory, but saw samples, said to have been brought from near the Middle Fork of Snoqualmie River.
You teach (though wee learne not) a thing unknowne To our late times, the use of specular stone, Through which all things within without were shown.
I find obscure mention of the specular stone also to have been found and applied to this use' (i.
The splendent surface has suggested for this mineral such names as specular iron ore, looking-glass ore, and iron glance (fer oligiste of French writers).
In the Marquette district of Michigan (Lake Superior) schistose specular ore occurs in important deposits, associated with a jasper rock, in which the ore alternates with bands of red quartzite.
Specular iron ore occurs in the form of brilliant metallic scales on many lavas, as at Vesuvius and Etna, in the Auvergne and the Eifel, and notably in the Island of Ascension, where the mineral forms beautiful tabular crystals.
Specular haematite forms a constituent of certain schistose rocks, such as the Brazilian itabirite.
Micaceous iron ore consists of delicate steel-grey scales of specular haematite, unctuous to the touch, used as a lubricant and also as a pigment.
In Pietamonte the workable bed is composed entirely of micaceous specular iron ore (fer oligiste), with its fissures filled with yellow ochre.
The varieties called specular fer oligiste, and scaly fer oligiste, or iron-glance, do not differ essentially from the compact.
It is a mistake to suppose any specular iron ore capable of yielding 85 per cent.
Illustration: 581] The island of Elba is equally celebrated for its inexhaustible abundance of rich specular iron-ore, and for the immemorial antiquity of its mining operations.
The pepitas occur in different forms, often adhering to micaceous specular iron.
In Corsica, and the whole portion of Italy adjoining the Mediterranean shores, the iron ore is an oxide similar to the specular ore of the Isle of Elba.
It were but madnes now t'impart 5 The skill of specular stone, When he which can have learn'd the art To cut it, can finde none.
On breaking a fragment from one of them, with my hammer, I was much surprised to find it a calcareous substance, a solid mass composed of hexagonal crystals, with a small portion of brilliant specular iron ore.
I took one of their instruments, and on using it as they did, found these veins to contain a very minute micaceous substance approaching to earthy talc, also some quartz, and large crystals of specular iron ore.
After equivocating very much, they acknowledged that they had rubbed and beaten substances to powder, and when they found specular iron ore they thought it was silver.
He had also some specimens of stalactitic matter, on which nitre was forming, others of specular iron ore, and three or four fine pieces of chrome, which I at first took for realgar.
Antonio, near Congonhas do Campo, in a vein accompanied with quartz andspecular iron ore.
The most valuable is what is called the specular hematite, which chemically is known as a pure anhydrous sesquioxide.
Sometimes the magnetic and specular lie side by side, and it is a puzzle to geologists and chemists alike to account for the difference between them.
Well it would have been for Cicero's peace of mind if he could seriously have reconciled himself to abide by that specular station.
On the chemical process in the formation of specular iron, see Gay Lussac, in the 'Annales de Chimie', t.
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