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can assay the ore at a very small expense, and smelt it only at a greatexpense. Both processes, however, are carried out in the same way, for justas we assay ore in a little furnace, so do we smelt it in the large furnace. Alsoin both cases charcoal and not wood is burned. Moreover, in the cruciblewhen metals are tested, be they gold, silver, copper, or lead, they are mixed inprecisely the same way as they are mixed in the blast furnace when theyare smelted. Further, those who assay ores with fire, either pour out themetal in a liquid state, or, when it has cooled, break the crucible and clean
Terms adopted.
Latin.
German.
Remarks.
Further
Notes.
Limestone
Litharge
Lye
Saxum calcis
Spuma argentiLixivium
Kalchstein
Glette
Lauge durch
Mostly potash
p. 233
Muffle
Tegula
asschen gemachtMuff el
Latin, literally
Operculum
Operculum
Helm oder alem-
“ Roof-tile ”
Helmet or cover for
Orpiment
A uripigmenlum
hick
Operment
a distillation jarYellow sulphide of
p. hi
Pyrites
Pyrites
Kis
arsenic (AS2S3)Rather a genus of
p. 112
Pyrites (Cakes
Panes ex pyrite
Stein
sulphides, than ironpyrite in particularIron or copper matte
P- 350
from)
Realgar
conflati
Sandaraca
Rosgeel
Red sulphide of
p. hi
Red lead
Minium
Menning
arsenic (AsS)
Pb304
p. 232
Roasted copper
Aes ustum
Gebrandt kupffer
Artificial copper
p. 233
Salt
Sal
Saltz
sulphide (?)
NaCl
p. 233
Salt (Rock)
Sal fossilis
Berg saltz
NaCl
p. 233
Sal artificiosus
Sal artificiosus
A stock flux ?
p. 236
Sal ammoniac
Sal ammoniacus
Salarmoniac
NH4CI
p. 5 bo
Saltpetre
Halinitrum
Salpeter
KNO3
P- 561
Salt (refined)
Sal tostus
Sal facticius purgatusSal tostus
Gerost saltz
NaCl
Apparently simply
p. 233
Sal lorrefactus
Sal tonefactus
Gerost saltz
heated or meltedcommon salt
p. 233
Salt (melted)
Sal liquefactus
Gefiossen saltz
Melted salt or salt
p. 233
Scorifier
Schist
Silver minerals (seenote 8, p. 108)Slag
Soda
Catillus fictilisSaxum fissile
Recrementum
Nitrum
Scherbe
Schifer
Schlacken
glass
Mostly soda from
P- 558
Stones which easily
Lapides qui facile igni
Flits
Egypt, Na2Co3Quartz and fluorspar
p. 380
melt
Sulphur
liquescunt
Sulfur
Schwefel
Marl (?)
P- 579
Tophus
Tophus
T opstein
P- 233
TouchstoneVenetian glassVerdigris
Coticula
Venetianum vitrumAerugo
Goldstein
Gritnspan oder
Copper sub-acetate
p. 440
Vitriol
Atramentum
Spanschgriin
Kupferwasser
Mostly FeSC>4
p. 572
White schist
sutorium
Saxum fissile album
Weisser schifer
p. 234
Weights (see Appen-dix).