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
Skimming of refining furnaces, 240, 241.
" reverberatory furnaces, 94, 95, 100.
Slags, 35, 39, 62.
" in blast-furnace smelting, 116, 129–133, 145, 147–154,
180, 181, 187–191.
" in converting, 192, 203–205, 209–213.
" in furnace refining, 222, 241.
" in pyritic smelting, 172–188.
" in refining, 221.
" in reverberatory smelting, 94, 95, 102–104.
Slag-formation in roasting, 88.
" -foundations for reverberatories, 96.
" -notch of blast furnaces, 136, 158–162.
" -spouts, 128, 158–166.
Slagging-stage in bessemerising, 205, 207.
Slimes in briquetting, 57, 152.
" in electro-refining, 228–234, 236, 238.
" Treatment of, 53–56, 152.
Slotted tuyeres, 185.
Smelting practice, 51, 54, 81, 204.
" scheme at Anaconda, 54, 55.
Smith (and Pierce converter), 194, 202, 215.
Smoke problem, 171, 188.
Soluble constituents of electrodes, 229, 231.
Solubility of copper in iron sulphide, 38.
" " slags, 116.
" gases in copper, 25, 28.
" matte in slag, 132.
" sulphides in slag, 116, 149, 179.
Sound anodes, 229, 230.
Sources of copper, 43.
South Wales, 4, 5, 71, 73.
Span of reverberatory arch, 89.
Spanish copper mining, 7, 15.
" " ores, 46.
" production, 15.
Special bronzes, 21.
Specific gravity of copper, 24.
" " mattes, 39, 179.
" electrolyte, 231.
" slags, 147–149.
Specifications for copper, 19, 20.
" " for fire-box plates, 20.
" " for Post Office work, 19.
Speculation in copper markets, 11, 12.
“Spewing” of copper, 222.
Spindles of MacDougal roasters, 74, 79.
Spouts, 128, 158–166.
Sprouting of copper, 222.
Stacks of blast furnaces, 140, 169.
" reverberatories, 89.
Staffordshire, Copper smelting in, 4.
Stages in converting, 205, 209, 210, 213, 216.
" refining, 223.
Stahl, 50.
Stamping of briquettes, 57.
Stamp-milling of native copper ores, 51.
Statistics of copper, 15.
Staying of reverberatories, 96, 99, 221.
Stays, Copper for, 19, 41.
Steam-pipes, Copper for, 19.
Steptoe Smelter, Nevada, 75.
Stevens, H. J., 17.
Sticht, R., 171, 172, 182, 183, 191.
Storing of matte in blast furnaces, 134.
" " reverberatories, 94.
" " settlers, 135.
Stoves for heating blast, 145.
Straightening of anodes, 228.
Strength of cathode copper, 18, 232, 238, 239.
" copper, 21, 32, 33, 41, 238, 239, 241.
" electrolyte solutions, 231.
Stripping of cathodes, 228, 230.
Sub-silicates, 147.
Success in pyritic smelting, 181.
Sulijtelma Smelter, Norway, 194.
Sulphide ores, 43, 45.
" Preliminary treatment of, 52.
Sulphides, Fuel values of, 119–122, 152, 170, 173,
177, 178, 203, 212, 213.
" in the blast furnace, 113, 115, 117–121, 147, 158,
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