The effects of salt mining in Cheshire, England
- Book ID
- 103089035
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1879
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 61 KB
- Volume
- 107
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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β¦ Synopsis
Salt 3lining ir~
Cheshire, England. 341
Siliciuret of Iron.--The committee of chemical arts of the French Soci~t~ d'Encouragement pour L'Industrie Natio~mle has undertaken tile examination of the uses which can be made of this new compound. ]?rof. Lawrence Smith sent them all ingot weighing about three kilogrammes [6"6 lbs.], with a color like platina and a specific gravity of @5. It is easily broken by the hammer, does not rust in the air, is not corroded by concentrated nitric acid, and scarcely by any reagents ~xcept fluorhydric acid and melted alkalies at a red'heat.--Proc~s lΒ₯,'baux de la Soc. C.
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