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Seite 626 - Garvin mine, one on the east side and the other on the west side of a little branch which flows north into Trough Camp branch.
Seite 696 - There are two methods of quantitatively analyzing clays. One of these is termed the ultimate analysis, the other is known as the rational analysis. The ultimate analysis. — In this method of analysis, which is the one usually employed, the various ingredients of a clay are considered to exist as oxides, although they may really be present in much more complex forms. Thus, for example, calcium carbonate...
Seite 721 - King-techin porcelain is made, is not true kaolin, but a hard jade-like greenish rock which occurs between beds of slate. He states: 'This rock is reduced, by stamping, to a white powder, of which the finest portion is ingeniously and repeatedly separated. This is then moulded into small bricks. The Chinese distinguish chiefly two kinds of this material. Either of them is sold in King-te-chin in the shape of bricks, and as either is a white earth, they offer no visible differences.
Seite 730 - Indigenous. A. Kaolins. (a) Superficial sheets. (b) Pockets. (c) Veins. Foreign or transported. A. Sedimentary. (a) Marine. 1. Pelagic (deposited in deeper water). 2. Littoral (deposited near shore).
Seite 731 - Non-calcareous. (b) Lacustrine clays. (Deposited in lakes or swamps.) Fire clays or shales. Impure clays or shales, red burning. Calcareous clays, usually of surface character. (c) Flood plain clays.
Seite 732 - Food adulterant; paint fillers; paper filling; electric insulators; pumps; fulling cloth; scouring soap; packing for horses' feet; chemical apparatus; condensing worms; Ink bottles; ultramarine manufacture; emery wheels; playing marbles ; battery cups ; pins, stilts, and spurs for potters' use ; shuttle eyes and thread guides; smoking pipes; umbrella stands; pedestals; filter tubes; caster wheels; pump wheels; electrical porcelain; foot rules; plaster; alum.
Seite 697 - High-grade clays show a percentage of silica, alumina, and water, approaching quite closely to those of kaolinite. 2. The refractoriness of the clay, for, other things being equal, the greater the total sum of fluxing impurities, the more fusible the clay. 3. The color to which the clay burns. This...
Seite 722 - King-te-chin in the shape of bricks, and as either is a white earth, they offer no visible differences. They are made at different places, in the manner described, by pounding hard rock, but the aspect of the rock is nearly alike in both cases. For one of these two kinds of material, the place Kaoling (" high ridge,") was in ancient times in high repute ; and, though it has lost its prestige since centuries, the Chinese still designate by the name " Kao-ling," the kind of earth which was formerly...
Seite 732 - Refractory Wares. — Crucibles and other assaying apparatus ; gas retorts ; fire bricks ; glass pots ; blocks for tank furnaces ; saggers ; stove and furnace bricks ; blocks for fire boxes ; tuyeres ; cupola bricks.
Seite 750 - ... the shrinkage of the mixture in burning. Sand or sandy clays are the materials most commonly used for this purpose but ground bricks (grog), and even coke or graphite may be employed.

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