Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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can assay the ore at a very small expense, and smelt it only at a great
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as we assay ore in a little furnace, so do we smelt it in the large furnace. </
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in both cases charcoal and not wood is burned. </
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when metals are tested, be they gold, silver, copper, or lead, they are mixed in
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precisely the same way as they are mixed in the blast furnace when they
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metal in a liquid state, or, when it has cooled, break the crucible and clean </
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