Modern Copper Smelting: being lectures delivered at Birmingham University, greatly extended and adapted and with and introduction on the history, uses and properties of copper.Levy, Donald M.
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Modern Copper Smelting: being lectures delivered at Birmingham University, greatly extended and adapted and with and introduction on the history, uses and properties of copper.
Levy, Donald M.
Copper -- Metallurgy
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David, 193, 214.
Dean, 34.
Decline of British mining, 9.
De Lamar refinery, 243.
Density of copper, 24.
" " mattes, 39, 179.
" electrolyte, 231.
" slags, 147, 148, 149.
Depositing tanks (see _Tanks_).
Deposition of copper, Electrolytic, 232, 233, 236, 237.
" " from solution, 33, 43.
" of moss copper, 38.
Destruction of converter linings, 199–204.
Details of blast furnaces, 113, 131.
" MacDougal furnaces, 76.
" pyritic smelting furnaces, 184, 185, 188.
" refining furnaces, 220, 224, 239.
" reverberatory furnaces, 96–99.
Development of bessemerising, 192.
" blast furnaces, 122–127, 145.
" copper industry, 2.
" reverberatory furnaces, 89, 90.
" roasting furnaces, 69.
" " practice, 69.
" smelting practice, 9, 51.
Difficulties in black-copper smelting, 115, 117.
" in casting, 224.
" in converting, 192, 193.
" in electro-refining, 219.
" in pyritic smelting, 177–181.
" in series-system, 228.
" with gaseous fuel, 108.
" with matte-anodes, 26.
Diffusion of arsenic in copper, 29.
Dilution of blast-furnace gases, 189.
Dimensions of blast furnaces, 123–127, 135, 184, 185, 188.
" converters, 193, 195, 197, 198, 202, 204.
" electrodes, 229, 230.
" heaps, 68.
" refining furnaces, 220–224.
" reverberatories, 84, 88–89, 105.
" roasting furnaces, 69, 72, 74, 76.
" tanks, 234.
Dimorphic change in sulphides, 36.
Disadvantages of basic linings, 214.
" bessemerising low-grade mattes, 203.
" Brückner roaster, 72.
" forced draught, 85.
" high current density, 233.
" impure anodes, 219.
" roasting, 118.
" series-system, 228.
" small fire-grates, 85.
Discharge of blast furnaces, 138 (see _Withdrawal_).
Discharge of roasters, 72, 78.
Disposal of blast-furnace products, 146, 159 (see also _Withdrawal_).
Dissolved gases in copper, 25, 26, 31, 40, 42.
Distribution of blast-furnace charges, 153, 156, 179, 186, 188.
" electrolyte, 235.
" impurities in copper, 31.
Direct process, 35.
Doctoring of furnaces, 178.
Doors, 141.
“Dope,” 210.
“Doping” in converting, 210.
“Doubling” in converting, 212.
Douglas, James, 215.
Draft in reverberatory work, 83–87, 93, 94.
Draft-pressures, 85, 87, 92–94, 101, 102.
Dry copper, 24, 28, 42, 222, 239, 241, 242.
" Characteristics of, 24, 41, 42.
Ducktown Smelter, Tennessee, 154, 170, 177, 184, 186, 188, 190.
Ductility of copper, 20, 22, 31, 33.
Dust, 159, 167, 168, 169, 186, 221.
" chambers for blast furnaces, 140, 159, 167, 168, 190.
" " roasters, 72, 78.
" losses (see _Flue-dust_).
Dwight-Lloyd sintering machine, 59, 60, 109, 169.
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