Gold: Or, Legal Regulations for the Standard of Gold & Silver Wares in Different Countries of the WorldChatto & Windus, 1877 - 140 páginas |
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... alloy with which it is mixed . The degrees of standard were formerly expressed , in the case of gold , by carats ( the dried kernel of the locust - bean ) , of which , in Germany , twenty - four were called a mark . The carat was ...
... alloy with which it is mixed . The degrees of standard were formerly expressed , in the case of gold , by carats ( the dried kernel of the locust - bean ) , of which , in Germany , twenty - four were called a mark . The carat was ...
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... alloy alter the colour but little . In later times gold has frequently been alloyed with zinc ; especially in America has this been done . This alloy has a very beau- tiful colour , but proportionately the standard is reduced to the ...
... alloy alter the colour but little . In later times gold has frequently been alloyed with zinc ; especially in America has this been done . This alloy has a very beau- tiful colour , but proportionately the standard is reduced to the ...
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... of refining silver from its alloy yielded by some thousandths too little . Tillet's experiments , however , were soon forgotten , or rather it was somewhat hazardous to attack a process upon which all commerce in silver 18 INTRODUCTION .
... of refining silver from its alloy yielded by some thousandths too little . Tillet's experiments , however , were soon forgotten , or rather it was somewhat hazardous to attack a process upon which all commerce in silver 18 INTRODUCTION .
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... alloy is reckoned by the quantity of solution of common salt required for this purpose ; or else from gold is produced oxyd of gold , free from oxyd of iron ; the oxyd of gold made soluble in oxymuriatic acid , and amalgamated with ...
... alloy is reckoned by the quantity of solution of common salt required for this purpose ; or else from gold is produced oxyd of gold , free from oxyd of iron ; the oxyd of gold made soluble in oxymuriatic acid , and amalgamated with ...
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... . How far the art of working in gold and silver had been cultivated among the ancients , and how well they understood mixing the pre- cious metals with alloy , is best seen in Livy's " Roman History " ( I. , xxxii . , INTRODUCTION . 21.
... . How far the art of working in gold and silver had been cultivated among the ancients , and how well they understood mixing the pre- cious metals with alloy , is best seen in Livy's " Roman History " ( I. , xxxii . , INTRODUCTION . 21.
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