Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 463
ilvery lustre, awaits removal. Thisgold amalgam, containing hundreds of thousands of separate particles of the precious metal, is nowscooped into sheet-iron buckets, and carried to the retort-room, where the quicksilver is removedby heat, collected under water, and used over again, while the… … MINING, HYDRAULIC. 443 The aggregate loss of quicksilver in several mines for a period of several years, where a recordwas kept,°was as follows: 3,931,367 cubic yards of material moved by 2,784,450 miners inches ofwater, with a loss in quicksilver of 4,351 lbs., or 1 lb. of quicksilver to 900 cubic…
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