Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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If a
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centumpondíum
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of copper contains two
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líbrae
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and a
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bes
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of silver, and
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the lead a third of a
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libra
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and a
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semí-uncía,
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there will be in each liquation
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cake one and a half
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líbrae
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and a
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semí-uncia,
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and a little more than a
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sicilicus
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semi-uncia
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>If there be in the copper only a minute proportion of silver, it cannot be
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separated easily until it has been re-melted in other furnaces, so that in
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the “bottoms” there remains more silver and in the “tops” less.
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furnace, vaulted with unbaked bricks, is similar to an oven, and also to the
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cupellation furnace, in which the lead is separated from silver, which I described
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