Aluminium : its history, occurrence, properties, metallurgy and applications, including its alloys / by Joseph W. Richards.

  • Richards, Joseph W. (Joseph William), 1864-1921.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Aluminium : its history, occurrence, properties, metallurgy and applications, including its alloys / by Joseph W. Richards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAOE Deville’s account of his researches . . . .118 Wohler’s improvement on Deville’s ]>rocess; AVatts on the reduction of cryolite ; Gerhard’s furnace . . 12fi AVatts’s summary of the use of cryolite . . .127 General remarks . . . . . . . .128 PART VI. The Manufacture of Sodium. Preliminary observations ...... 130 Summary, taken principally from Mierzinski; Elforts of Davy, Gay Lussac, Thenard, Curaudau, Brunner, Donny, and Mareska . . . . . .131 Donny and Mareska’s condenser, illustrated; Deville’s account of its operation ...... 132 Object of and disadvantage in use of chalk ; Preliminary calcination of the mixture ; Illustration of the 'furnace. 133 Decomposition retorts, illustrated . . . . .134 Operation in the retorts . . . . . .135 Deville, Ilivot, and Tissier on the temperature . . 137 AV'agner’s improvement; Attempts to reduce potassium and sodium together ....... 138 AATldon’s calculation of the cost of sodium ; Making of sodium in New York City, N. Y.; Castner’s Ameri- can patent process . . . . • . .139 Claims made in Castner’s patent . . . . .141 Reduction of sodium by electricity, !Micrzinski, Davy; Jablochoff’s apparatus described and illustrated . .142 PART AO I. AIanufactuke of Alumina. Present state of the industry ; Tilghman’s process . Manufacture from cryolite ; Dry way 144 140