This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...borax red. It is not dissolved in nitric acid. Both the friable and the massive varieties have been found at Schneeberg in Saxony, and in the Hollerter Zug in the county of Sayn. HATCHETINE. Hatchetine. J. J. Conybeare. Ann. of PhiL Vol. I. p. 136. Phill. p. 374. In the shape of flakes like spermaceti, or of granular ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...borax red. It is not dissolved in nitric acid. Both the friable and the massive varieties have been found at Schneeberg in Saxony, and in the Hollerter Zug in the county of Sayn. HATCHETINE. Hatchetine. J. J. Conybeare. Ann. of PhiL Vol. I. p. 136. Phill. p. 374. In the shape of flakes like spermaceti, or of granular masses, like bees1 wax. Lustre slightly glistening and pearly, and of considerable degrees of transparency, when in flakes, else dull and opake. Colour yellowish-white, wax-yellow, and greenish-yellow. Hardness, like soft tallow. Very light. Without odour or elasticity. It melts below the boiling point of water. Ether dissolves it readily; being evaporated, the solution leaves a viscid oily inodorous matter. Distilled over the spirit-lamp, it gives a bituminous smell, a greenish-yellow butyraceous substance is disengaged, and a coaly residue remains in the retort. At a lower temperature a light oil is distilled. It occurs in small contemporaneous veins with rhombohedral Quartz, rhombohedral Lime-haloide, and Iron-ores, at Merthyr Tydvil in South Wales. It has been described by Mr Brande under the denomination of Mineral Adipo. cire. The description of Hatchetine agrees very nearly with the following one given of Mountain Tullvzc, in Vol. XI. of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. Mountain Tallow has the colour and feel of tallow, and is tasteless; its specific gravity is = 0-6078 in its natural state, but it is increased by melting it to 0083, the air bubbles being driven off. It melts at 118, and boils at 290; when melted it is transparent and colourless, but becomes opake and white on cooling. It is insoluble in water, but is dissolved by alcohol, oil of turpentine, olive-oil, and naphtha, when hot, but is precipitated when they cool. It doe...
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