. De re metallica. Metallurgy; Mineral industries. 510 BOOK XL If a centumpondium of copper contains two librae and a bes of silver, and the lead a third of a libra and a semi-uncia, there will be in each liquation cake one and a half librae and a semi-uncia, and a little more than a sicilicus of silver. In the exhausted liquation cakes there remain a third of a Zi6r« and a semi-uncia of silver. If there be in the copper only a minute proportion of silver, it cannot be separated easily until it has been re-melted in other furnaces, so that in the " bottoms " there remains more silver
. De re metallica. Metallurgy; Mineral industries. 510 BOOK XL If a centumpondium of copper contains two librae and a bes of silver, and the lead a third of a libra and a semi-uncia, there will be in each liquation cake one and a half librae and a semi-uncia, and a little more than a sicilicus of silver. In the exhausted liquation cakes there remain a third of a Zi6r« and a semi-uncia of silver. If there be in the copper only a minute proportion of silver, it cannot be separated easily until it has been re-melted in other furnaces, so that in the " bottoms " there remains more silver and in the " tops " less.^^ This. -Furnace. B—Forehearth Dipping-Pot. furnace, vaulted with unbaked bricks, is similar to an oven, and also to the cupellation furnace, in which the lead is separated from silver, which I described in the last book. The crucible is made of ashes, in the same manner as ^^In this enrichment of copper by the " settling " of the silver in the molten mass the original copper ran, in the two cases given, 5o ozs. 15 dwts and 85 ozs. i dwt. per ton. The whole charge weighed 2,685 lbs., and contained in the second case 114 ozs. Troy, omitting fractions. On melting, 1,060 lbs. were drawn off as " tops," containing 24 ozs. of silver, or running 45 ozs. per ton, and there remained 1,625 lbs. of "bottoms," containing 90 ozs. of silver, or averaging no ozs. per ton. It will be noticed later on in the description of making liquation cakes from these copper bottoms, that the author alters the value from one-third librae, a semi-uncia and a drachma per centumpondium to one-third of a libra, , from no ozs. to 97 ozs. 4 dwts. per ton. In the Glossary this furnace is described as a spleisofen, , a refining Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble th
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