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DR. SMYTHE's interesting account of the mining, extraction, and uses of lead should be found useful by teachers and students of chemistry, as well as entertaining by the general reader. The illustrations, partly reproductions of old cuts from Agricola and partly of modern plant, add considerably to the interest and value of the book. A good description is given of the manufacture of white lead, and of the methods of separating silver from argentiferous lead.
Lead: Including Lead Pigments and the De-silverisation of Lead.
Dr.
J. A.
Smythe
By. (Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries.) Pp. vii + 120. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., n.d.) Price 3s. net.
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Lead: Including Lead Pigments and the Desilverisation of Lead . Nature 106, 241 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106241b0
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