Aluminium: Its History, Occurrence, Properties, Metallurgy and Applications, Including Its Alloys

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H. C. Baird & Company, 1890 - Aluminum - 511 pages

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Deposit of beauxite in Floyd County Georgia with analyses
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Notes on the analyses Combined and free silicon in aluminium
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Forging hammering and shaping of aluminium Ductility Manufac
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CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF ALUMINIUM
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Solutions of metallic salts
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Bekétoffs experiment Miscellaneous agents
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Alums Definition of alums Potash alum Calcined alum
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Mr Websters process for making pure alumina
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Transverse strength Table giving the percentage increase in strength
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Levisseur methodique
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Cost of aluminiumsodium chloride by Devilles process as made
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Dullos method of producing aluminium chloride
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CHAPTER VII
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Tissier Bros method of procedure 1856 Details from Tissiers
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Improvements in the manufacture outlined by Mr Weldon
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Analyses of the residues
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Melting and preservation of the sodium Temperature of the furnace
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THE REDUCTION OF ALUMINIUM COMPOUNDS FROM THE STANDPOINT
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Influence of the relative masses of the reacting bodies Heat gene
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Piepers process of preparing artificial cryolite Bruners method
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Wöhlers method of producing aluminium
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Devilles and Hautefeuilles method of making aluminium fluoride
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Production of the works at Nanterre Rationale of the process used
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The reduction furnace illustrated and described
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Description of the works at Oldbury near Birmingham England
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Experiments of Percy and Dick 1855
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Wöhlers modifications 1856 Gerhards furnace 1858
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Operations of the Alliance Aluminium Co of London England
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