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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Rabbles of MacDougal furnaces, 76, 77.
Rabbling of roaster furnaces, 69–71.
Rachette furnace, 10, 125.
Radiation losses in reverberatory smelting, 83, 86.
Rapidity of smelting in blast furnaces, 124, 129, 133, 135,
143, 159, 160.
" " reverberatories, 83–92.
Rate of deposition, 232.
Reactions in the blast furnace, 113, 117–119.
" converting, 194, 205, 207, 210.
" furnace refining 239–243.
" pyritic smelting, 171, 172, 178, 180, 182, 183.
" reverberatory smelting, 81, 114, 119, 215.
" roasting, 36, 63, 64, 65, 109–112.
" sintering, 57, 110–111.
" smelting, 61, 62.
Re-concentration in pyritic smelting, 179, 181, 186–188.
Recovery of copper from slags and residues, 116, 119, 211.
Rectangular blast furnaces, 123.
Reducing gases in annealing, 28.
Reduction in the blast furnace, 113, 115–117.
" of oxides in furnace refining, 223–240.
" smelting, 113, 116, 117, 120, 122.
Redruthite, 46.
References, Lists of, 17, 34, 50, 80, 112, 191, 215, 243.
Refinery slags, 221, 222.
Refining of copper, 25, 26, 50, 54, 211, 214, 217–242.
Refining, Electrolytic, 8, 43, 50, 215–218, 227–242.
" of electrolytic copper, 50, 238–343.
" furnaces, 219, 220, 224, 239.
" Losses in, 116, 221, 222.
Regeneration of electrolyte, 236.
Regulation of reverberatory furnace working, 87, 92.
Re-lining of converters, 199, 200, 204, 213, 214.
Removal of blast-furnace products (see _Withdrawal_).
" impurities in converting, 207,215.
" " furnace refining, 221, 222.
Renwick, C. W., 191.
Repairs in roaster furnaces, 79.
" reverberatory furnaces, 95.
Replacing jackets of blast furnaces, 127, 158.
" values of bases, 150, 180.
Requirements for good blast-furnace slags, 148.
" good reverberatory practice, 81, 87, 109–112.
" refining furnaces, 221.
" roasting furnaces, 69.
" successful pyritic practice, 176.
Resistance, Electrical, 24.
" of electrolyte, 232, 233.
Reverberatory fore-hearths, 135.
" furnaces, 52, 69, 88.
" smelting, 54, 55, 61, 63, 76, 80–112, 215.
" " compared with blast furnace, 114, 117.
" " efficiency, 114, 124.
" " reactions, 81, 114, 119, 215.
Rice, C. T., 191.
Richards, 53.
Rickard, T. A., 145, 170, 191.
Ricketts, L. D., 78, 80, 105–108, 112.
Rigidity of arsenical copper, 33, 41.
Rio Tinto, 8, 67.
Roaster gases, 63.
" process, 35.
Roasting, 36, 47, 51, 54, 55, 61–68, 88, 109–112, 177.
" in heaps, 67.
" in pyritic process, 176, 182.
" Objections to, 62, 67.
" Open-air, 67.
" practice, 66–71, 82, 87, 88.
" " early improvements, 10.
" preliminary to blast-furnace treatment, 113, 115, 118.
" reactions in sintering, 57, 110, 111.
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