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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42

Metallurgy

Metallurgy.

The Lectures will treat of—
(a.)Fuel, furnaces, crucibles, retorts, fluxes.
  • Coal—the different varieties.
  • Charcoal—its manufacture in kilns, heaps, ovens.
  • Coke—its manufacture in mounds, ovens, &c.
  • The description of the different kinds of furnaces: The blast furnace—hot blast, cold blast; rever-beratory furnace, oxidizing and reducing furnaces, puddling furnace, refinery, calcining furnace, liquation furnace, assay furnace, Siemen's gas furnace; materials for furnaces and crucibles—e.g., fire-stone, fire-clay, fire-bricks; the different kinds of crucibles and retorts; determination of the heating power of different kinds of fuel.
(b.)Extraction of metals from their ores,
(c.)Physical and chemical properties of the metals.
(d.)Industrial applications of the metals.