Practical chemical mineralogy; or, Concise and easy methods, illustrated by experiment, for readily acertaining the nature and value of the different metallic ores and other mineral substances ... / by Frederick Joyce.

  • Joyce, Frederick.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Practical chemical mineralogy; or, Concise and easy methods, illustrated by experiment, for readily acertaining the nature and value of the different metallic ores and other mineral substances ... / by Frederick Joyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE, The rapidly increasing importance of Mineralogical Chemistry, or the Art of Assaying and Analysing Minerals, would be in itself a sufficient apology for sending forth the following pages to the world, as an endeavour to extend the knoAvledge of its utility, had they not also been repeatedly solicited by many of those fiiends to whom 1 have given practical insti’uction. At a time when Science and Art are so intimately connected with the necessaries, as well as the elegancies of life, it may ap- pear to a cursory observer difficult to point atone branch in particular as possessiiu^ more advantages than the rest: nevertlieless o the man of fortune, of landed estate, and ieisine, tins ,3 certainly the most intimately #