The Assayer's Guide, Or Practical Directions to Assayers, Miners, and Smelters: For the Tests and Assays, by Heat and by Wet Processes, of the Ores of All the Principal Metals, and of Gold and Silver Coins and Alloys (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Assayer's Guide, or Practical Directions to Assayers, Miners, and Smelters: For the Tests and Assays, by Heat and by Wet Processes, of the Ores of All the Principal Metals, and of Gold and Silver Coins and Alloys

Assaying was the earliest known branch of chemistry, and in fact that one which afterward, through the medium of the various investigations of alchemy, drew attention to theoretical chemistry, and thus founded that science.

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