A systematic arrangement of minerals, founded on the joint consideration of their chemical, physical, and external characters reduced to the form of tables, and exhibiting the analysis of such species as have hitherto been made the subject of experiment / by William Babington.

  • William Babington
Date:
1795
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Credit: A systematic arrangement of minerals, founded on the joint consideration of their chemical, physical, and external characters reduced to the form of tables, and exhibiting the analysis of such species as have hitherto been made the subject of experiment / by William Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CLASS III. ME TAL S. ORDER. GENUS. SPECIES. VARIETY. ANALYSIS. 1. DuCtiie. 6. Copper. 7. Muriate of Copper. 1. Amorphous. a. In a fandy form. Copper 52. Acid 10. Oxygen 11. Water 12. Sand 11. Roc/tefoucauld. 8. Sulphuret of Copper. Vitreous Copper Ore. 1. Cryftallifed. a. In hexhed. truncated prifms 2. Amorphous. a. Compact. Copper 56. with Sulphur. Klapr. 9. Variegated Copper Ore. 1. Amorphous. a. Compact, Copper and Sulphur, with fome Iron. Berg, 10. Yellow Cop- per Ore. 1. Cryftallifed. a. In equilateral tetrahedrons and their modifications. b. In dodecahedrons with tri- angular faces. c. Indeterminate. 2. Amorphous. a. CompaCt. Copper 20. with Iron and Sul- phur. Kirw. 7. Iron. 11. Grey Copper Ore. 12. White Cop- per Ore. 1. Native Iron. 1. Cryftallifed, a. In tetrahedrons and their modifications. b. In dodecahedrons, with triangular faces and their modifications. c. Indeterminate. 2. Amorphous. a. CompaCt. 1. Of particular lhapes. a. Ramofe. 2. Amorphous. a. CompaCt. Copper 16. Lead 34. Anti- mony] 6. Iron 13. Sulphur1 IO. Silex 2. Silver 2. Klapr. Copper 40. with Arfenic and Iron. Henkel. 2. Grey Iron Ore. Magnetical Iron Ores. Emery. 1. Cryftallifed. a. In aluminiform oCtohedrons and their modifications. b. In cubes, partly ftriated, and their modifications. c. In double hexhedral pyra- mids, deeply truncated at their fummits. d. In hexagonal laminae. e. Indeterminate. 2. Amorphous. a. Foliated. b. Granular. c. In loofe grains, d. Interfperfed. e. CompaCt, Iron united to a fmall propor- tion of Oxygen. Dclamcth. 3, Hematite. 1 Ochres. | 1. Of particular lhapes,, a. StalaCtitie. b. Mamillated. c. Reniform. d. Botryoidal. e. Filiform, &c,. 2. Amorphous, a. Fibrous, b. Scaly. c. CompaCt. d. Earthy. Iron 45. with Carbonic Acid and ArgilL Kirw.