Exotic Mineralogy,: Or, Coloured Figures of Foreign Minerals, as a Supplement to British Mineralogy. ...Benjamin Meredith, Silver Street, Wood Street, Cheapside; and sold by the author, J. Sowerby, no. 2, Mead Place, Lambeth; White and Company Fleet Street; Sherwood and Company Paternoster Row; and by all booksellers in town and country., 1817 - 351 pagine |
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acid acute Aikin Alumine analysis angles Antimony appears Argilla arsenic acid Augite Berzelius blow-pipe blue Borax Bour Bournon Catal brilliant Brit British Mineralogy British Museum brittle brown Carbonate of Lime Cerium colour compact containing Copper crystals cube diamond dodecahedron dull edges faces Feldspar fibrous fissures Fluate of Cerium foliated foliated structure fracture gangue granular grav green grey Haüy Haüy Tabl Heüland hexahedral Hornblende Idocrase imbedded inclined Iron Pyrites Karsten Kirwan Klaproth laminæ lustre mackled Magnesia mamillated Manganese mass matrix Meteoric Mica mineral Mineralogy minute modifications natif native Nickel Norway nucleus obtuse occurs octahedron opaque Oxide of Iron pale parallel Pimelite planes Porphyry primitive form prism produced pyramids Quartz rhomb rhomboidal prism rock Sahlite shew Silex Silver sometimes species specimen figured Spinel Stilbite stone Strömeyer substance Sulphate Sulphur Sulphuret sulphureum surface Tellure Tellurium Thompson's Annals transparent truncated variety Vauquelin veins Water Werner yellow Yttria
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Pagina 47 - It consists of antimony, with arsenic 61.68, nickel 23.33, sulphur 14.16, silica, with silver and lead, 0.83, and a trace of iron. It occurs in veins near Freussberg in Nassau.
Pagina 98 - This mineral occurs in the beds of rock salt at Ischel, in Upper Austria, and has been hitherto erroneously considered by mineralogists as Muriacite ; and under the name of fibrous mnriaclte, it has been described as a variety of that mineral substance.
Pagina 23 - Finbo which is much mor i the neutral fluates and subfluatr " ' • t but 'ceeds that of a pea. Its most usual colour is pale red, similar to that of a mixture of carmine and white lead ; but it is sometimes white, or deep red, or nearly yellow. It is so soft that it may be easily scratched by the nail, and it may be easily detached from its matrix by the fingers. It then leaves a rough irregular cavity. This mineral occurs likewise in irregular amorphous masses of a reddish-brown colour, sometimes...
Pagina 40 - Catalogue raisonné des Diamants dans le cabinet de Sir Abraham Hume, bart.
Pagina 25 - Silica, 21.922 Alumina, 32.202 Lime, - 0.730 Sulphate of Lime, . 0.517 Carbonate of Copper, 3.058 Hydrate of Iron, 0.270 100 Stromeyer.
Pagina 53 - Lime 47 Phosphoric acid . . . 32.25 Fluoric acid . . « . 2.5 Silex 0.5 Oxide of Iron ... 0.75 Water 1 Quartz and argillacious , , , , matter . . . . J 1J'° Loss 4.5 100.0 Î3.S TAB.
Pagina 108 - I made an analysis of it some time ago ; I could not find any Tellurium in it, but the blow-pipe always afterwards retained the odour of this metal. Duripg my researches on Selenium, I recollected this circumstance, and the friend who possessed the mineral, sent me a sufficient quantity for an exact analysis.
Pagina 108 - With respect to Selenium, I must inform you that I have found a fossil which contains one-fourth of its weight of it.
Pagina 98 - I shall conclude this letter by informing you of anew mineral, very remarkable, on account of its composition. I have given it the name Polyhalite.
Pagina 140 - Jameson says, this mineral occurs in veins in secondary Porphyry, in the Manganese formation of Oehrenstok near Ilmenaa in Thuringia, my specimen is said to be from Elgersburg near Gotha, and is accompanied by purple Fluor.