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Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2017.
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| Colección: | European Expansion and Indigenous Response Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; General Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Figures; Colour Plates; Tables; Guide to the Text; Chemical Symbols; Units of Measure; Equivalence of Units of Measure; Monetary Units; Translations; Illustrations and Drawings; Cover Illustration; Photographs; Other; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Genesis and Nature of Silver Ores; Why Spain?; To Have and Have Not; Old World Silver Ores; New World Silver Ores; Silver Sulphide and Silver Chloride; Argentiferous Galena; A Red Herring; The Other Chemical Keys
- The Immoveable Object and the Unstoppable ForceThe Table is Set; Chapter 2. The Dry Refining Process: Smelting of Silver Ores; Deceitful Mercury; Smelting of Silver Ores: The Human Context; The Chemistry of Smelting and the Nature of the Ore; The Architecture of Smelting in New Spain; The Infrastructure of Smelting in New Spain; Plata de fuego (Silver by Fire); Chapter 3. The Dry Refining Process: Its Impact on the Environment; Lead: The Nature of Its Consumption; Lead: The Directionality of Its Loss; Lead: Its Source; Charcoal and the Scale of Depletion of Woodland
- The Local Environmental Impact of SmeltingA Straightforward Decision; Chapter 4. The Wet Refining Process: The Chemistry of the patio Process; Plus ça change; The Alchemy of Mercury; The Gold Connection; The Complex Mechanism of a Mercury-Based Refining Process; The correspondencia: The Key to the Fate of Mercury; The Loss of Calomel; The Stages in the Use of Mercury to Refine Gold and Silver Ores; The Twists in the Trail; Mercury-Based Refining of Silver Ores: The Human Factor; Plata de azogue (Silver by Mercury); Chapter 5. The Physical Infrastructure of the patio Process
- The patio ProcessMilling the Ore; The patio Reactor; Planillas; The azoguería, or Mercury Room; Desazogaderas or capellinas and the Recycling of Mercury; The Architecture of the patio Process; The Environmental Impact Vectors of the patio Process; A Unique Industrial Effort; Chapter 6. The Hacienda Santa María de Regla; The Nineteenth Century; The Adventurers in the Mines of Real del Monte; The Hacienda de Regla; Main Process Areas; Main Gate and Storage of Incoming Ore; Stamp Mills, Chilean Mills and arrastres; The patio Reactor
- Furnace Area A: Covered storage, hornos castellanos and capellinasFurnace Area B: English Blast Furnaces; Final Comments on the Architectural Layout of Regla; The Mass Balance of the Silver Refining Processes at Regla, 1872 to 1888; Chapter 7. The patio Process and Smelting at Regla; The Keys to an Efficient patio Process at Regla; Coordinated Milling and Supply to the patio Reactor; An Intelligent and Interactive Application of the patio Process Recipe; Long Term Planning of Inventory; Optimal Use of the patio Reactor Area; Low Use of Fuel in the patio Process