10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOCIMASY»
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The Scientific Class-book, Or, A Familiar Introduction to ...
... in vessels which take back copper ore. Docimasy. 73. The art of assaying
minerals, for the purpose of ascertaining their composition, and especially the
nature and proportions of their metallic products, is termed docimasy, or
docimastics.
Walter Rogers Johnson, 1836
2
The Book of Science,: Second Series, Comprising Treatises on ...
DOCIMASY. The art of assaying minerals, for the purpose of ascertaining their
composition, and especially the nature and proportions of their metallic products,
is termed Docimasy, or Docimastics. It differs from metallurgy in its strictest ...
3
The Historians' History of the World: Greece to the ...
[507 so] there was no obvious absurdity in thinking so; and the docimasy
excluded from the office men of notoriously discreditable life, even after they
might have drawn the successful lot. Pericles, though chosen strategus, year after
year ...
Henry Smith Williams, 1907
4
The Historians' History of the World
there was no obvious absurdity in thinkin so; and the docimasy excluded from the
office men of notoriously discre itable life, even after they mi ht have drawn the
successful lot. Pericles, though chosen strategus, year a ter year successively, ...
Henry Smith Williams, 1908
5
Greece to the Peloponnesian war
[307 B.C.] there was no obvious absurdity in thinking so ; and the docimasy
excluded from the office men of notoriously discreditable life, even after they
might have drawn the successful lot. Pericles, though chosen strategus, year after
year ...
Henry Smith Williams, 1908
6
Considerations Upon the Art of Mining: To which are Added, ...
We should be directed, not blinded, by analogy ; we should consult it as a
prudent, but not an infallible adviser. 3. The third branch of the miner's studies is
docimasy, or the art of analyzing minerals. To this branch we are indebted for all
that we ...
William Hypolitus Keating, 1821
7
The History of Chemistry
In the seventh book he treats of docimasy, or the method of determining the
quantity of metal which can be extracted from every particular ore. This he does
so completely, that most of his processes are still followed by miners and
smelters.
8
Urban Airborne Particulate Matter: Origin, Chemistry, Fate ...
4.1 Dissolution Techniques 4.1.1 Fire Assays (Docimasy) Fire assay techniques
have been developed predominantly for the processing of geological samples. It
uses rather large sample sizes (4-100 g), which are mixed with a fluxing agent ...
Fathi Zereini, Clare L. S. Wiseman, 2011
9
Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment
... with a noticeable increase in mineral chemistry and docimasy, both of these
being added to the pharmacy-oriented chemistry that had prevailed during the
previous decades. This marked rise in interest in mineralogy may be linked with
the ...
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Christine Blondel, 2008
10
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
F. docimas- tique, a., docimastic (of. op. docimdstica = Pg. \t. docimastica, n.,
docimasy), < Gr. doKtuaariKdc, < doKtuaoTT/s, an assayer, examiner, < dotu/id^
civ, assay, test, examine, scrutinize, < ddmuoc, assayed, tested, examined,
approved, ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1906
