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After crystals have formed, quicksilver must be added, heating gently meanwhile, until a thick, pasty amalgam has formed.
"Mercury, which completes the amalgam," the stout man muttered absently and as if to himself, "when heated sublimes over!"
For squeezing amalgam, strong calico, not too coarse, previously soaked in clean water, is quite as good as ordinary chamois leather.
Modern life, like modern language, is a monstrous amalgam, a conglomeration and mess of idioms from every age and every clime.
The rubber is covered with an amalgam of tin, zinc, and mercury, this being found very effectual in exciting electricity.
The amalgam thus collected was heated in a retort which expelled the quicksilver in vapor, which was condensed and used again.
Now I am a moral amalgam, and have a peculiar talent for mixing up human materials in society, however repellent their natures.
Davy by exposing hydrate of lithium in contact with mercury to galvanic action, and decomposing the resulting amalgam by distillation.
Graphite or sulphide of tin (mosaic gold) are sometimes used to coat the cushions; it is these that are sometimes incorrectly called amalgams.
Almost all metals readily form amalgams if their solutions are decomposed by a galvanic current, where mercury forms the negative pole.
Like some celestial and magical amalgam you weld into a complete whole the amazingly different units that come here to pay you homage.
It is in these subtle lyrical amalgams of humor and tenderness that the firm hand of the creator of character reveals itself.
This amalgam has a common speech, "made up of workshop and barrack slang and of rural dialects seasoned with a few neologisms."
When the mercury will absorb no more zinc, squeeze through chamois leather or calico (as for silver amalgam), and well rub in.
Of the latter several crystallize after a time, becoming solid; being, probably, merely solutions of the solid amalgams in excess of mercury.
When the crystals have formed, add sufficient clean quick mercury to form a thick pasty amalgam; moderate heat will assist the process.
Squeeze the quicksilver amalgam containing gold through a chamois skin or piece of cotton until it is as dry as you can get it.
The same general rule holds good in amalgam work, and the main cause of failure in these cases is that lack of thoroughness in finishing.
If you use too much nitric acid you will waste mercury and make the amalgam harder than it should be for the best results.
It was then poured into the melted tin, and at the same time a red powder enclosed in wax was projected into the amalgam.
After it has been well rinsed in clean water, the amalgam may be evenly and without difficulty applied with the scratch brush.
He is an inexplicable, I might say indefinable, amalgam of simplicity and lofty thoughts, of grace and logic, of critical faculty and courteous tolerance.
If your preceptor has told you that amalgam is as good as tin, and he thinks so, let him write an article in its defense.
When the amalgam was laid upon filtering paper, the moisture was gradually absorbed and evaporated, and the mercury returned to a fluid state.
It was caused by a thin strand of the insulated copper wire protruding from the amalgam covering and thus setting up a short circuit.
Having got your amalgam clean squeeze it through a piece of chamois leather, though a good quality of new calico previously wetted will do as well.
The gold liberated sinks into the crevices in the stone pavement, a little mercury being put into the trough to form it into amalgam.
This amalgam was then applied to the surface with a copper bit, like that plumbers use in soldering, and polished with a wire brush.
Every one who analyses the story must pronounce it the most extraordinary amalgam of immorality and absurdity ever palmed off on a credulous world.
Mercury also forms a solid amalgam with tin which is used to coat glass, the high metallic luster making the most effective looking glass.
Over her sewing she let her mind run free, forgetting this present Sunday with its problems, mixing a pleasant amalgam of the past.
Here in this Lowland pocket of territory, no larger than a good-sized American county, was compounded for five hundred years this remarkable amalgam of races.
Error absolute cannot exist; false doctrine without an amalgam of verity speedily crumbles, and the more monstrous the falsity the more rapid its decomposition.
The amalgam having settled down between the paving stones, the bed must be dug up and all the dirt between them carefully washed.
Soon the miners found that if quicksilver was put into these sluices, it would unite with the gold and make a sort of paste called "amalgam."
Mercury is added forming an amalgam and the silver is obtained by heating the amalgam, which evaporates the mercury leaving as a residue the crude silver.
This amalgam is generally retorted once a week, that is to say, the quicksilver is evaporated (but not lost) and the gold is left in the retort.
It still exists as he made it, an amalgam of power and servility, never leading, but often supplying the deciding force in the history of the world.
Here we have instructions in symbolical form to place the amalgam in a sealed vessel in the furnace and to allow it to remain there until some change is observed.
It seems to me like an amalgam, as when two metals are so intimately welded together that you can't say any longer, here's the one, there's the other.
I took a small ball of amalgam, placed it in a double fold of new fine-grained calico, and after soaking in hot water put it under a powerful press.
His mind was a peculiar amalgam of imagination and matter-of-fact, seeing strongly and clearly what he did see, but little conscious, apparently, of what lay outside his purview.
The gold is then dissolved by quicksilver (forming an amalgam from which the quicksilver is removed by heat), by potassium cyanide solution, or by chlorine solution.
Mirrors of this metal were in frequent use among a people to whom the art of applying a lustrous amalgam to the back of a plate of glass was unknown.
It was this judicious blend or amalgam of two seemingly different thought-currents, which were in reality only a bifurcation of the same current, that gave him all his strength.
The amalgam may also be worked under the hammer or between rollers; it can also be stamped, and retains its metallic luster for a long time in the air.
They were the amalgam which, by coalescing with the scattered factions of their race, had bound them up together and had formed for once a nation of them.
Tipping the rocker first to one side, and then gently reversing the position, the pure liquid quicksilver ran rapidly across the bottom, while the amalgam lingered behind.
For a little while in the fifth century there was a perfect amalgam, and we have a people bold in arms, clean in morality, and skillful in high idealistic art.
The quicksilver and amalgam taken from the sluice are put into a buckskin or cloth, and pressed, so that the liquid metal passes through, and the amalgam is retained.
In 1820 attention was called to the injurious effects of the galvanic current on the teeth, and dentists were advised never to use tin and amalgam in the same mouth.
Mercury cups, said to be made of an amalgam of mercury and tin, are stated to possess the property of allowing mercury, when poured in, to ooze through them, and pass out.
We make use of the amalgam of Tin with Quick-silver, because we are thereby enabled to mix the Corrosive Sublimate perfectly therewith, as the success of the operation requires it should be.
It was a shock even to Bruce, who was prepared for it, when he spread the chamois skin on a rock and looked at the ball of amalgam which it contained.
They found an amalgam of organic materials and acids which it would be tedious to enumerate and which, however employed, supplied not the smallest explanation of the very tiniest phenomena.
After a laborious set of experiments, he considered that he had ascertained it to be a compound of platinum and mercury, or an amalgam of platinum made in a peculiar way, which he describes.
No hand rocker, copper plate, nor amalgam had been used with success, neither did any of the myriads of prospective miners bring anything with them which promised better results.
The gold is thus obtained in the form of an amalgam; but the quicksilver is easily evaporated, if its loss be of no consequence, or separated without loss by a more scientific process.
Quicksilver was placed in the upper sluice boxes, and when the particles of gold were polished up by tumbling about in the gravel, they combined with the quicksilver making an amalgam.
The upper surface represents the operatives, made of silver amalgam, practicing their several divisions of labor, while the sides exhibit the galleries of the mine, with the miners at work.
The latter plan is the best for fastening the rubbers, as it allows them to be removed at any time for warming (a very essential point) or spreading fresh amalgam on them.
Many proofs are to be found of their skill in jewelry, and amongst these are wonderful statuettes which they made from an amalgam of gold and mercury, afterwards exposed to great heat.
When the amalgam has been applied, the rubbers are again screwed in their places, and the machine when turned (if the atmosphere is tolerably dry) will emit an abundance of bright sparks.
Zinc amalgam (preferable when mine water containing sulfuric acid is used in the battery) is applied to the plate after it has been cleaned with a moderately dilute mixture of sulfuric acid and water.
The gold is actually dissolved in the mercury, and so when the amalgam has been (as it is periodically) collected from the plant, it has to be filtered and then evaporated in a retort.
In order to produce with this amalgam impressions of castings, which are made after woodcuts, the amalgam is rolled out hot into a thin plate and pressed firmly onto the likewise heated plaster cast.
As the zinc in the pasty amalgam dissolves in the acid, the film of mercury unites with fresh zinc, and so always presents a clear, bright, homogeneous surface to the action of the electrolyte.
By causing a quantity of this amalgam to move around the inside of a receiver, clean, dry, and slightly heated, the surface will be covered with a thin, brilliant layer, which hardens quite rapidly.
Two or three thicknesses of tin foil may be pressed into a cavity with a rubber point or hard piece of spunk, allowing it to come well out to the margin; filling the rest with amalgam.
The resulting mass is washed out in a pan, as a prospecting miner washes for signs of gold, with the exception that quicksilver is put in to form an amalgam with the now liberated metal.
When cold reduce to powder and mix with an equal quantity of quicksilver and enough water to make a paste, and agitate the mixture for two days, when the amalgam will fall to the bottom.
We have no texture so fine that it will strain salt out of water; but the particles of gold are so coarse in amalgam that they can easily be strained out by means of buckskin or tight cloths.
It is well known that quicksilver unites very readily with almost all metals, and when added in a considerable quantity forms with them a paste which can be kneaded, and which is called amalgam.
By stirring it about with the pestle a loud cracking is produced, accompanied by a flame, which bears evidence to the union of the mercury and the sodium, and the formation of an amalgam of sodium.
To apply it on new plates use nitric acid applied with a swab to free the surface of the copper from oxides or impurities, then rub the ball of amalgam over the surface using some little force.
The brothers worked together for twenty-two years, and the amalgam of their diverse talents was so complete that, were it not for the information given by the survivor, it would be difficult to guess what each brought to the work which bears their names.
There is no such attraction between gold and quicksilver as there is between the magnet and iron; but when the two former metals once touch, an amalgam is immediately formed, and if the proportions of the metals be about even, they in time make a hard mass.
The gold-sand is 'dumped in;' and the water, turned on the top-plate, sets all in motion: the sand falls from plate to plate, leaving the free loose gold which has attached itself to the amalgam, and very little remains to be caught by the sixth plate.
Under each partition, on the inside or bottom of the 'box,' grooves may be cut a quarter-to a half-inch deep, extending parallel with the partitions to serve as a reservoir for the amalgam, and give a rolling motion to the solution as it passes along and through the four compartments.
This being done, place a small amount in the cavity, and at once upon it place a piece of amalgam, which should be so manipulated with the instrument suited to the size and shape of cavity as to force the cement under the amalgam all over the floor of the cavity.
First, never fill the retort too full, give plenty of room for expansion; for, when the heat is applied, the amalgam will rise like dough in an oven, and may be forced into the discharge pipe, the consequence being a loss of amalgam or the possible bursting of the retort.
It shone and glittered, apparently with gold and diamonds, although, as a matter of fact, there were no diamonds, nor was it gold which gleamed, but some ancient metal, or rather amalgam, which is now lost to the world, the same that was used in the tubes of the air-machines.
A drop of the solution is placed on a glass slide and while the observer watches it through a low power, a piece of copper wire or, preferably, a minute quantity of the amalgam of tin and mercury, such as is used for "silvering" cheap looking glasses, is brought into contact with it.
We have been forced, whether we would or no, first to endure, then to tolerate, and at last to like men from all the four corners of the world, and to see that each added a certain virtue of his own to that precious amalgam of which we are in due time to fashion a great nation.
As he pursued the elusive quicksilver and worked the sand and gravel to the end of the box all he could see was the stack of receipted bills which the work and plant had cost, in shocking contrast to that tiny ball of amalgam lying in the chamois-skin on the rock.
Similar plates are often used to catch any particles of gold that may be thrown back, while the main operation is so conducted that the bulk of the gold may be reduced to the state of amalgam by bringing the two metals into intimate contact under the stamp head, and remain in the battery.
This water was flashed on the top surface of the reservoir in which the amalgam was confined, and was entirely turned into steam, the object of the engineers in charge being to send in so much water as would just generate the steam, but so as not to leave any water in the boiler.