OCR by The Paperless Office. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was a publication from the mid 1700's covering much of the advancement of scientific knowledge of the early industrial era. This is one page from that document, taken from volume 50, published in 1757. I will have this entire volume uploaded, but unfortunately, only one page at a time.
OCR by The Paperless Office. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was a publication from the mid 1700's covering much of the advancement of scientific knowledge of the early industrial era. This is one page from that document, taken from volume 50, published in 1757. I will have this entire volume uploaded, but unfortunately, only one page at a time.
OCR by The Paperless Office. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was a publication from the mid 1700's covering much of the advancement of scientific knowledge of the early industrial era. This is one page from that document, taken from volume 50, published in 1757. I will have this entire volume uploaded, but unfortunately, only one page at a time.
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hitherto made unricroffary. The near and remarkable relation betwixt platina and gold, not only in point of grayly, but in many lefs obvious properties, hitherto fuppored to belong to gold dont, and their an manifeR difogreement inn others, particularly colour, dotrility, and fufibility s induced me to enarninC, what cffetts they might horn in combination with one another in different propor- tions ; and whether there is rmfort to audit the re- port of great frauds haying been committed by mixing them together ; how for bud) abufes are pratticable and, what is of more importance, the means by which they are dikoveralalc
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EIIPERIMZNT I. 1. Twelve cares of fine gold, and the farm cpuntity of the pm= grains of Salina, reCIT urged an a blall-furoace, for near an hour, with a fire fo fining, that a flip of Windfor brick, with which dm crucibk was covered, the defended- by a thin coating of pure white clay, had begun to oath Upon break- ing the redid, the metal was found in ono fmooth lump or bead ; which, after being neared by the flame of a lamp, and boiled in ahumwater, appeared,
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o n by dlefe, thn mOm foleweb of pla .1 uflully reprelled. A pumas Me manly-four. pan of thewbole compound . dna of fo many carats Is a compact.* ol Mod, fo many mum, lambs we bar gold, and Me reit m Infum ma4. both