The use of the blowpipe, in the qualitative and quantitative examination of minerals, ores, furnace products and other metallic combinations / Edited, with emendations, by Dr. Sheridan Muspratt. With a preface by Baron Liebig.

  • Plattner, Carl Friedrich, 1800-1858.
Date:
1850
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Credit: The use of the blowpipe, in the qualitative and quantitative examination of minerals, ores, furnace products and other metallic combinations / Edited, with emendations, by Dr. Sheridan Muspratt. With a preface by Baron Liebig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of seeing Professor Plattner working with the Blowpipe', and the beauty and accuracy of his manipulation astonished me. He has by long practice obtained such a degree of skill in its use, that he can detect substances which might often be overlooked, even in the nascent method. In my preface to the first edition, I stated the numerous emendations in the work; in preparing the present one, the subject of every chapter has been carefully recon¬ sidered, all new minerals noticed, and recent improve¬ ments, that I thought would be of service to the student or philosopher, have been introduced, either in notes or incorporated in the volume. I feel proud in being the medium through which the English public has been made acquainted with so useful a treatise, and, in repro¬ ducing it, my own gratification is enhanced by the approbation of its author, who expresses his feelings on the subject in the following words: — Dr. Sheridan Muspratt has published in English my Prohirkunst mit dem Lothrohre,’ and, really, with such circumspection and profound knowledge of the subject, that I deem it my hounden duty to tender him my heartfelt acknow- SHEBIDAN MUSPKATT. College of Chemistry, Liverpool, 1850.