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Chemistry for the Gold-Fields

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THE title “Chemistry for the Gold-Fields” the author justifies by stating in his preface that in writing this book he had three objects in view:—

Chemistry for the Gold-Fields: including Lectures on the Non-Metallic Elements, Metallurgy, and the Testing and Assaying of Metals, Metallic Ores, and other Minerals, by the Test-tube, the Blow-pipe, and the Crucible.

By James G. Black, Professor of Chemistry, Metallurgy, and Assaying in the University of Otago, and Otago School of Mines. 8vo, pp. 569. (Dunedin, 1885.)

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Chemistry for the Gold-Fields . Nature 34, 238–239 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034238a0

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