XXIII. Account of a substance found in a clay-pit; and of the effect of the Mere of Diss, upon various substances immersed in it. By Mr. Benjamin Wiseman, of Diss, in Norfolk. Communicated by John Frere, Esq. F. R. S. With an analysis of the water of the said Mere. By Charles Hatchett, Esq. F. R. S. In a letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S

1798 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 567-581
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Horizontal Direction ◽  
Rotten Wood ◽  
The Right

The substance I have inclosed was found near Diss, in a body of clay, from five to eight feet below the surface of the soil. All the pieces I observed laid nearly in a horizontal direction; and varied in size, from two or three ounces, to as many pounds. The colour of the substance, when taken fresh from the clay-pit, was like that of chocolate; it cuts easily, and has the striated appearance of rotten wood. The pieces were of no particular form; in general, they were broad and flat, but I do not recollect to have met with a piece that was more than two inches in thickness: it breaks into laminæ, between which are the remains of various kinds of shells. The specific gravity of this substance, dried in the shade, is 1.588; it burns freely, giving out a great quantity of smoke, with a strong sulphureous smell. By a chemical analysis, which I cannot consider as very accurate, one hundred grains appear to contain, Of inflammable matter, including the small quantity grains of water contained in the substance - - - - - 41.3 Of mild calcareous earth - - - - - - - - - 20.0 Of iron - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2.0 Of earth, that appears to be silex - - - - - - - 36.7 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 100

Note on cobaltiferous Mispickel from Sulitjelma, Norway

1904 ◽  
Vol 14 (63) ◽  
pp. 54-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Naked Eye ◽  
White Colour ◽  
Iron Pyrites

Some months ago Professor Henry Louis presented to this college several isolated crystals which he had brought from the Sulitjelma (or Sulitelma) mines in Arctic Norway: they occur there in masses of copper-pyrites and iron-pyrites, for which this district has been famed for some years.The crystals are of various sizes, ranging in length from 4 to 8 mm. They have a metallic lustre and silver-white colour. The fracture is uneven, and no cleavage is visible. On a freshly broken surface small yellow particles can be seen with the naked eye; these also have a metallic lustre, and are probably iron-pyrites, a probability which is strengthened by the appended chemical analysis. The specific gravity varies from 5.94 to 6.02, and the hardness is just under 5. The crystals are all of a pronounced rhombic aspect.

scholarly journals DETERMINAÇÃO DAS PROPRIEDADES ENERGÉTICAS DA MADEIRA E DO CARVÃO VEGETAL PRODUZIDO A PARTIR DE Eucalyptus benthamii

FLORESTA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Letícia Nones ◽  
Martha Andreia Brand ◽  
Alexsandro Bayestorff Da Cunha ◽  
Adriel Furtado De Carvalho ◽  
Solange Maria Krug Weise
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Calorific Value ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Energetic Properties ◽  
Different Ages ◽  
End Use ◽  
Immediate Analysis ◽  
Old Trees ◽  
Volumetric Yield

Este trabalho teve como objetivo caracterizar energeticamente a madeira e o carvão vegetal obtidos a partir da espécie Eucalyptus benthamii Maiden & Cambage para duas diferentes idades, 5 e 13 anos. Para a madeira de cada idade, foram confeccionados 48 corpos de prova, com aproximadamente 2 x 2 x 2 cm, que foram utilizados para determinação da massa específica, poder calorífico superior, análise química imediata e carbonização. Após a carbonização, as propriedades energéticas do carvão vegetal foram avaliadas a partir da massa específica aparente, rendimento gravimétrico e volumétrico, poder calorífico superior e análise química imediata. Tanto para a madeira quanto para o carvão vegetal houve influência da idade. A madeira com 13 anos apresentou maior massa específica básica e maior poder calorífico. Porém as diferenças nas propriedades físicas e energéticas da madeira das duas idades não justificam a manutenção da floresta até os 13 anos de idade, quando seu uso final é a geração de energia na forma de carvão. Em relação ao carvão, aquele produzido com madeira de 13 anos apresentou maior rendimento, enquanto o carvão vegetal de 5 anos apresentou melhor qualidade final para uso energético.Palavras-chave: Energia de biomassa; propriedades energéticas; eucalipto. AbstractDetermination of energetic properties of wood and charcoal produced from Eucalyptus benthamii. This research aimed to characterize the energetic properties of wood and charcoal obtained from Eucalyptus benthamii for two different ages, 5 and 13 years. For each timber age, we prepared 48 specimens, approximately 2 x 2 x 2 cm, used to determine specific gravity, calorific value, immediate analysis and carbonization. After carbonization, we evaluated the energetic properties of the charcoal in relation to density, gravimetric and volumetric yield, calorific value and immediate chemical analysis. As the wood as charcoal were influenced by age. The 13 years old timber revealed higher specific gravity and higher calorific value. However, the differences in the physical and energetic properties of the wood of the two ages do not justify maintaining the forest until the age of 13, as its end use is generation of energy as coal. The charcoal produced from 13 years old trees had the highest yield, while the charcoal from 5 years old trees had better quality to energy usage.Keywords: Biomass energy; energy properties; Eucalyptus.

I. Whiteite, a new species, and a proposed nomenclature for the jahnsite-whiteite complex series. II. New data on xanthoxenite. III. Salmonsite discredited

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (323) ◽  
pp. 309-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Brian Moore ◽  
Jun Ito
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Breakdown Product ◽  
Pure Material ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Intimate Mixture ◽  
Species Type ◽  
A New Species

SummaryWhiteite, Ca(Fe,Mn)2+Mg2Al2(OH)2 (H2O)8[PO4]4, a 14·90(4) Å, b 6·98(2) Å, c 10·13(2) Å, β 113° 07(10)′, Z = 2, space group P2/a, α 1·580(5), β 1·585(5), γ 1·590(5), 2V 40–50°, specific gravity 2·58, is a new species from the Ilha de Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is the Al3+-analogue of jahnsite. The mineral occurs as up to 5 mm tan crystals flattened on {001}. Twinning by reflection on {001} leads to pseudoorthorhombic development. Rather pure material also occurs from Blow River, Yukon Territory, Canada.For the general formula XM(1)M(2)2M(3)2(OH)2 (H2O)8[PO4]4, it is proposed that for M(3), Al3+ > Fe3+, the established members of the series are whiteite—(CaFe2+Mg) and whiteite—(Mn2+Fe2+Mg); and for Fe3+ > Al3+, jahnsite—(CaMn2+Mg), jahnsite—(CaMn2+Fe2+), and possibly jahnsite—(Mn2+Mn2+Mn2+).Xanthoxenite of Laubmann and Steinmetz (1920) is probably stewartite (in part) on the basis of morphological, optical, physical, and paragenetic evidence. The xanthoxenite of Frondel (1949) is proposed as the species type. It is triclinic, P or P1, a 6·70(4) Å, b8·85(4) Å, c 6·54(3) Å, α 92·1(2)°, β 110·2(2)°, γ 93·2(2)°, Z = 1 for composition .Salmonsite, c. from Pala, California, is shown to be an intimate mixture of hureaulite and jahnsite on the basis of calculated and observed powder patterns and on reinterpretation of the original chemical analysis published by Schaller (1912). It is a breakdown product resulting from oxidation of Fe2+ in the original hureaulite (‘palaite’) along with further aquation followed by fine-grained recrystallization. The reaction proposed is:

scholarly journals Deposition of barium sulphate as a cementing material of sandstone

1899 ◽  
Vol 64 (402-411) ◽  
pp. 374-377
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Barium Sulphate ◽  
High Specific Gravity ◽  
Microscopical Examination ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Cementing Material

Some years ago I described the occurrence of a peculiar sandstone over a large area in Bramcote and Stapleford, near Nottingham. The sandstone was remarkable for its high specific gravity, and chemical analysis, supported by microscopical examination, proved that the high specific gravity was due to the existence in the sandstone of a large proportion of highly crystalline barium sulphate.

scholarly journals On the optical and physical properties of tabasheer. By David Brewster, LL. D. F. R. S. Lond. and Edin. In a letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G. C. B. P. R. S. &c

1833 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 115-116
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
The State ◽  
Index Of Refraction ◽  
Flint Glass ◽  
The Third ◽  
Refractive Power ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Right

Tabasheer is a substance found in the cavities of the bamboo, existing originally in the state of a transparent fluid, but gradually indurating into a solid of different degrees of hardness: it consists of 70 silica, + 30 potash and lime. One variety has a milky transparency, transmitting a yellowish, and reflecting a bluish light; another is translucent, and a third opake: the two first varieties become transparent, and evolve air when immersed in water: the third evolves air also, but remains opake. If the first varieties be only slightly wetted they become quite opake. The property of acquiring transparency by the evolution of air from, and the absorption of water by its pores, belongs also to the hydrophanous opal; but the faculty of becoming opake by a small quantity, and transparent by a larger, of water, shows a singularity of structure in tabasheer. As the tabasheer disengages more air than hydrophane, its pores must be more numerous; and therefore the transmission of light, so as to form a perfect image, indicates either a very feeble refractive power or some peculiarity in the construction of its pores. To determine this, Dr. Brewster formed a prism of tabasheer with an angle of 34° 15', and upon measuring its refractive power found it very low, though various in different specimens, the index of refraction varying from 1·11 to 1·18, that of water being 1·33, of flint-glass 1·60, of sulphur 2·11, of phosphorus 2·22, and of the diamond 2·47. So that tabasheer has a lower refractive power than any other solid or liquid, and holds an intermediate place between water and the gases. Dr. Brewster then gives a formula for computing the absolute refractive power of bodies, and a table of results, from which it appears that, in this respect, the refractive power of tabasheer is so low as to be separated by a considerable interval from all other bodies. The author next proceeds to detail a variety of experiments upon the absorbent powers of the different kinds of tabasheer, in respect to several liquids, and the corresponding effects upon its optical properties and specific gravity, and concludes with observations on the cause of the paradox exhibited by the transparent tabasheer, in becoming opake by absorbing a small quantity of water, and transparent when the quantity is increased.

scholarly journals Sorensenite, a new sodium-beryllium-tin-silicate from the Ilímaussaq intrusion, South Greenland

1965 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
E.I Semenov ◽  
V.I Gerassimovsky ◽  
N.V Maksimova ◽  
S Andersen ◽  
O.V Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
New Mineral ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Tin Silicate

The new mineral sorensenite (Na4SnBe2Si6O16(OH) 4) occurs in groups of prisms attaining diameters of several centimetres. The mineral is transparent or semitransparent, colourless, brown or pink. The crystals are monoclinic, a0 = 18.58, b0 = 7.45 and C0 = 12.05, β = 98°09'. Space group C62h – I 2/a, C4s - Ia.There are two distinct cleavages. The specific gravity is 2.9, the hardness 5-5.5. The mineral sometimes forms flat pseudohexagonal triplets with the normal to in (100) as twin axes.The mineral is biaxial negative, 2Vα ( = small to 75°, nα ( = 1.576-1.579, nβ = 1.581- 1.585 and nγ = 1.584 - 1.586. The chemical analysis (by M.E. Kazakova):SiO2 49.73, SnO2 20.07, Nb2O5 0.75, Fe2O3 0.04, BeO 8.02, Na2O 15.95, K2O 0.34, H2O 5.24; total 100.14 corresponds to the formula: Na4SnBe2Si6O16(OH)4.The mineral occurs in analcime-rich bodies in nepheline-sodalite-syenites of the llímaussaq massif, South Greenland. It is abundant in a few localities. Sorensenite is named after professor Henning Sørensen, Copenhagen, who directs the investigations in the Ilímaussaq region.

Conclusions: Bringing It All Together

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Brynn Hibbert
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Analytical Measurement ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Interlaboratory Studies ◽  
Good Laboratory ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Government Chemist ◽  
The Right ◽  
Culture Of Quality

If you have read this book, whether a few pages at a time, by jumping back and forth, or meticulously from beginning to end, the aim of this chapter is to draw together the methods, concepts, and ideas to help you answer the question, how do I make a good analytical measurement? If nothing else, you will have discovered, like the answers to the greater questions of life, that there is not a simple prescription for quality assurance that if followed leads to success. Even knowing if you have the right answer is not always vouchsafed; is customer satisfaction sufficient? Does the continuing solvency of your business say that something must be going well? Does staying within ± 2σ in interlaboratory studies cause you happiness? The best laboratories do all of this and more. At the heart of a good laboratory is an excellent manager who has recruited good staff, set up a culture of quality, and who understands the science and business of chemical analysis and the requirements of his or her clients. I do not believe laboratories can be run by people with only managerial skills; at some point a chemical analyst is going to have to take responsibility for the product. In this reprise of the book’s contents I revisit the six principles of valid analytical measurement (VAM) so cleverly enunciated by the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. But first some words about clients and samples. As has been stressed throughout this book, many problems can be solved by chemical analysis, and the point of chemical analysis is therefore not to do chemistry for its own sake, but to contribute to the solution of those problems. Clients, or customers as now found in ISO/IEC 17025, come in many shapes and sizes, from people who gladly admit no scientific knowledge at all to fellow professionals who can discuss the analysis as equals. The first kind are more difficult to work with than the latter, although colleagues who meddle are never totally welcome. An apparently simple request to analyze something might require extensive negotiation about exactly what is needed.

Bravoite from Mill Close mine, Derbyshire

1940 ◽  
Vol 25 (170) ◽  
pp. 609-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A Bannister ◽  
M. H. Hey
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Unit Cell ◽  
Small Specimen ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Accessory Minerals ◽  
Cell Edge ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Preliminary Work

Early this year Mr. Arthur Russell brought me a small specimen of ore from Mill Close mine, Wensley, Derbyshire, for identification. An X-ray powder photograph p1. xxviii, fig. 3, showed that the mineral has the pyrite structure with unit-cell edge a 5.49 Å., and a chemical analysis of a small sample of specific gravity 4·82, yielded Ni 16·69, Fe 29·30, S 53.40% (see table 1). These data identified the specimen as bravoite, a rare mineral new to the British Isles. At a later date Professor W. G. Fearnsides interested himself in our preliminary work and kindly provided me with further specimens of bravoite and accessory minerals from the Mill Close mine. These also have been investigated.

Fergusonite from Ceylon

1893 ◽  
Vol 10 (47) ◽  
pp. 234-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. T. Prior
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
New Mineral

In the appendix to the paper on the new mineral, baddeleyite, in the last number of the Magazine, Mr. Fletcher proves the identity of that mineral with the brazilite of Husssk, and explains the deviation in specific gravity and the original incorrect determination of the chemical composition of the Brazilian mineral by the supposition that the crystallographic measurements were made on the true mineral, while the specific gravity determination and chemical analysis were made on another, a tantalo-niobate of yttrium associated with it.

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