A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 305
ogenalone burning, the carbon beingcarried as a dense cloud of smokeinto the chamber b c by thedraught. In this there is a hoodor cone of coarse cloth, d, whichmay be raised or lowered by a pulley.. The sides ofthe chamber are covered with leather, and on thesethe lampblack collects. One of its… … CAKBON. 293 gravity is 3.5. It exhibits a high refractive and dis-persive action upon light. The largest diamond knownwas the Koh-i-JSToor, which weighed 900 carats whenfound ; in 1852 it was cut into a brilliant of 162| carats.The Pitt diamond, one of the crown jewels of France,is probably the…
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