Text-book of Assaying
Author: first_name:  Cornelius
last_name: Beringer
first_name: John Jacob
last_name: Beringer
Language: English
Year: 1904

This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At first our intention was to supply a description of those substances only which have a commercial value, but on consideration we have added short accounts of the rarer elements..."<br /><br />The book's early chapters are wide-ranging, describing the general theory of assaying and a range of methods and reagents, with the later chapters describing analytical methods f