 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 pages
...they find in cavities- of rocks in the mines, and then melting the slimy solution in a strong lire, which in the cooling proves copper. The like is said...there be rivers whose waters are impregnated with gold ; perhaps,.the gold being dissolved by some corrosive waters, like aqua regis, and the solution carried... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...copper, iron, vitriol, antimony, &c.) they change iron into copper by dissolving it in a vitriolatc water, which they find in cavities of rocks in the...than by selling it. 2. Whether in Hungary, Sclavonia, Dohemia, near the town Eila, or at the mountains of Bohemia near Silesia, there be rivers whose waters... | |
 | 1825 - 490 pages
...called Roman vitrioll, but of a nobler virtue than that which is now called by that name, which vitrioll is not now to be gotten, because, perhaps, they make...a greater gain by some such trick as turning iron iuto copper with it, than by selling it. II. Whether in Hungary, Sclavonia, Bohemia, near the town... | |
 | 1831 - 496 pages
...Roman vitriol! — but of a nobler virtue than that which is now called by that name ; which vitrioll is not now to be gotten, because, perhaps, they make...Whether, in Hungary, Sclavonia, Bohemia, near the town Kiln, or at the mountains of Bohemia, near Silesia, there be rivers whose waters are impregnated with... | |
 | David Brewster - 1831 - 328 pages
...Roman vitrioll), but of a nobler virtue than that which is now called by that name ; which vitrioll is not now to be gotten, because, perhaps, they make a greater gain by some such trick as turning irou into copper with it than by selling it. 2. Whether, in Hungary, Sclavonia, Bohemia, near the town... | |
 | David Brewster - 1832 - 340 pages
...Roman vitrioll), but of a nobler virtue than that which is now called by that name ; which vitrioll is not now to be gotten, because, perhaps, they make...aqua regis, and the solution carried along with the streame, that runs through the mines. And whether the practice of laying mercury in the rivers, till... | |
 | 1845 - 334 pages
...Roman vitrioll), but of a nobler virtue than that which is now called by that name ; which vitrioll is not now to be gotten, because, perhaps, they make...aqua regis, and the solution carried along with the streame, that runs through the mines. And whether the practice of laying mercury in the rivers, till... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 504 pages
...Roman vitriol!,) but of a nobler virtue than that which is now called by that name ; which vitrioll is not now to be gotten, because, perhaps, they make...aqua regis, and the solution carried along with the streame, that runs through the mines. And whether the practise of laying mercury in the rivers, till... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 518 pages
...Roman vitrioll,) but of a nobler virtue than that which is now called by that name ; which vitrioll is not now to be gotten, because, perhaps, they make...Bohemia near Silesia, there be rivers whose waters arc impregnated with gold ; perhaps, the gold being dissolved by some corrosive waters like aqua regis,... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 158 pages
...(called Roman vitrioll) but of a nobler virtue than that which is now called by that name, which vitrioll is not now to be gotten, because perhaps, they make...Whether in Hungary, Sclavonia, Bohemia, near the town Elia, or at the mountains of Bohemia near Silesia, there be rivers whose waters are impregnated with... | |
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Roman vitrioll), but of a nobler virtue than that which is now called by that name ; which vitrioll is not now to be gotten, because, perhaps, they make a greater gain by some such trick as turning iron into copper with it than by selling it. 2. Whether,... 
