Metallurgy.
Professor Black.
The Lectures will treat of—
(a.) | Fuel, furnaces, crucibles, retorts, fluxes.
- Coal—the different varieties.
- Charcoal—its manufacture in kilns, heaps, ovens.
- Coke—its manufacture in mounds, ovens, &c.
- The description of the different kinds of furnaces: The blast furnace—hot blast, cold blast; rever-beratory furnace, oxidizing and reducing furnaces, puddling furnace, refinery, calcining furnace, liquation furnace, assay furnace, Siemen's gas furnace; materials for furnaces and crucibles—e.g., fire-stone, fire-clay, fire-bricks; the different kinds of crucibles and retorts; determination of the heating power of different kinds of fuel.
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(b.) | Extraction of metals from their ores, |
(c.) | Physical and chemical properties of the metals. |
(d.) | Industrial applications of the metals. |