A Collection of Mathematical Rules and Tables: Including Interest, Equation of Payment, Mensuration, Geometry, and Trigonometry, Rules for Calculating Diameter, Circumference, Area and Squaring the Circle : Together with the Metric System of Weights and Measures for Purveying Medicines and Other Official Purposes, Rules for Converting Terms of U.S. Apothecaries' Weights and Measures Into Their Respective Equivalents of the Metric System |
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Page 137 - In applying them to the manufacture of wrought-iron, the mode of working which has hitherto given the best results is as follows : Fluorspar and oxides of iron (titanic iron ore) are ground to a fine powder, mixed thoroughly, and thrown into the ordinary puddling furnace ; the molten cast-iron to be acted on is then poured over the spar and oxides, which remain on the bottom of the furnace. The furnace-door is closed, and the iron allowed to boil for about half an hour; the rabble is then worked...
Page 184 - Officers shall, for all official, medical, and pharmacal purposes, make use of the metric system of weights and measures. In expressing quantities by weight the term, of 'gram' and 'centigram,' and in expressing quantity by measure the term 'cubic centimeter