Electric Smelting and Refining: the Extraction and Treatment of Metals by means of the Electric Current

Abstract

THOUGH electro-metallurgy may still be regarded as in its infancy, it is such a lusty youngster and is making such rapid progress that it is high time that a good manual on the subject in the English language should be available to our engineers. No better work is wanted than a translation of Dr. Borchers' well-known treatise, and it has been excellently put into English by Mr. McMillan, who has also done his best to bring the work up to date, a task rendered all the easier by reason of the shortness of the time (considerably less than two years) that has elapsed since the publication of the German edition. The additional matter mainly concerns the practical aspect of the subject, accounts of actual applications of processes to which little or no reference is made in the German text being inserted under many of the subheads. With these additions, enough is stated to give a good general idea of the present industrial position of electro-metallurgy.

Electric Smelting and Refining: the Extraction and Treatment of Metals by means of the Electric Current.

Being the second edition of Elektro-Metallurgie, by Dr. W. Borchers. Translated, with additions, by Walter G. McMillan. Pp. xx + 416. With numerous illustrations. (London: C. Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1897.)