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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    TO THE SECOND EDITION. ’The interest excited in this country and America by Plattner’s renowned work on the Blowpipe/’ and the high encomiums bestowed upon it by distinguished scien¬ tific men, all concurring in the opinion, that the informa¬ tion and appliances it contains are most essential to the Chemist, Geognosist, Geologist, Mineralogist, Metallurgist, and Agriculturist, have induced the call for a second edition,—a proof of the increasing aptitude for this species of research. When this work was first issued, I felt satisfied its technical nature would preclude an extensive circulation, but that eventually it would come into general use. At the present time, it is a work of reference in every laboratory in Europe. I daily witness the truth¬ fulness of its results with my students, who, before dis¬ solving a substance for analysis in the humid way, ascer¬ tain its comportment before the Blowpipe; which enables the mere beginner to discover the presence of Cobalt, Antimony, Arsenic, Lead, Silver, Bismuth, Manganese, Selenium, Sulphur, Zinc, Chromium, Copper, Mercury, Strontia, Magnesia, and Soda. A skilful operator can prove infallibly the presence of a still greater number of substances. I had the pleasure, when at Freyberg,