Comenge, M., double reaction | Cowles's aluminium process, his-
utensils, valuable property of aluminium for, 68 Copper, alloys of aluminium with, 264-280
deposition of, by aluminium, 81
freeing of aluminium from, 240
oxide, action on aluminium, 87
reduction of aluminium by, 212
of aluminium-sulphide by, 322
the quality suitable for alu- minium bronze, 267 Coppering of aluminium, 80 Corbelli, of Florence, cyanogen process of, 180
process of, for deposit- ing aluminium elec- trolytically, 231
Cornwall, supposed discovery of native aluminium at, 43 Corundum, 49, 50
discovery in Georgia, 49 from Georgia, used by Cowles Bros., 205 price at the mines, 49
use of, for making alumin- ium, 37
Cost of aluminium at Salindres in 1872, 172
Cowles Bros.' agent in England,
owners of a patent for producing aluminium chloride, 326
patent claims, 190
process for the reduction of aluminium by car- bon, 189-205
Cross, W., description of Ame- rican cryolite, 48 Crucible clay, action on alumin- ium, 84
Crucibles, action of aluminium on siliceous, 259 alumina, use of, for obtain- ing aluminium, 228 in purifying alumin- ium, 243
aluminate of soda, use of, in purifying aluminium, 243
aluminium, use of, for ob- taining aluminium, 228 earthen, action of aluminium on, 35
iron, used by Rose, 106
use of, in purifying alu- minium, 241
lime, for melting alumin- ium, 36
lining for, 35, 123
porcelain, use of, for obtain- ing aluminium, 228 used in electrolyzing alu- minium, 224
Cryolite, Allen Dick's experi-
ments on reduction of, 115 and Beauxite, chief source of aluminium, 45 stimulated production
Cryolite, composition of, 119 decomposition of, 306 by electricity, 230 Deville's process for reduc- ing, 119-126.
Dr. Percy's experiments on reducing, 115 formula of, 44
general use as a flux, 48
H. Rose's paper on reduction of, 103-115
importation of, by the Penn- sylvania Salt Co., 48 imports into the United States, 49
in the United States, 48 manufacture of alumina from, 146-153 occurrence of, 48, 49 reduction of, 103-129
at Nanterre, 126 by ferro-silicum, 207 Watts's summary of its use, 127
Crystalline form of aluminium,
Crystallization of aluminium, 115 Crystallized silicon, 260 Culinary articles, use of alumin- ium for, 68, 245 Cupellation of aluminium, 71 from lead, 291 Curaudau, reduction of sodium by, 131
Cyanite, formula of, 44 Cyanogen, reduction of alumin- ium by, 180
Davy, reduction of sodium by, 131
unsuccessful efforts to isolate aluminium, 25
Debray, H., aluminium plant at Glacière, 28
Debray, M., statement of, in re- gard to iron in aluminium, 282 Decomposition furnace for so- dium mixture, 134
of aluminium sulphide by water, 311, 317 Degousse, first successful beater of aluminum leaf, 58
De la Rive, on the action of sul- phuric acid on aluminium, 74 Denis, M., of Nancy, remark on the soldering of aluminium, 248
Density of aluminium, 64 Deposition of aluminium by elec- tricity, 255
by the battery, 80 electrolytically, 222-234 Deville, aluminium plant at Gla- cière, 28
analysis of beauxite by, 47 book on aluminium, 1859, 29 charges against Tissier Bros., 28 conclusion of his book, 30 description of the reduction of sodium, 132
experiments on gilding and silvering aluminium, 256 H. St. Claire, first to isolate pure aluminium, 26 on soldering of aluminium, 247
on the aluminium obtained by Wöhler, 95
on the casting of aluminium, 237
on the electrolytic reduction
of aluminium, 223, 225 on the melting of alumin- ium, 235
on veneering with alumin- ium, 253 purification of aluminium,
Deville's sodium vapor process, 100
Diaspore, formula of, 44
where found, 50 Dick, Allan, paper on reducing cryolite, 116
Disthene, reduction of, by an electric current, 229 Donny and Mareska, condenser for making sodium, 131 Double reaction, reduction of aluminium by, 184
Drawing of aluminium into wire, 60
Drechsler, analysis of beauxite by, 47
Dublin, analysis of beauxite from, 47
Ductility of aluminium, 60 Dullo, M., process for making
aluminium chloride, 155 remark on the reduction of aluminium by zinc, 214 Dumas, on gases in aluminium,
Duvivier, M., on reduction of aluminium by electricity, 229 Dynamo used in Cowles Bros.' process, 204
Elastic range of aluminium, 62 Elasticity of aluminium, 61 Electric conductivity of alumin- ium, 66
furnace, Cowles Bros., 199 suggested by Mierzinski, 226
use of, for producing aluminium
326 Electrical furnace, gases from the, 197
separation of aluminium, 255 Electricity applied to melting steel, 194
to the extraction of metals, 194
Electrolytic methods of separat- ing aluminium, 41 Enamelling mixture to protect sodium retorts, 135
England, Cowles Bros.' agent in, 197
failure of aluminium manu-
first aluminium works in, 33 Webster perhaps the only
maker of aluminium in, 42 Engraving of aluminium, 61 Evrard, M., making of alumin- ium bronze by, 211
Falk & Co., makers of alumin- ium leaf, 60
Faraday's experiments on the sonorousness of aluminium, 64 Farmer, Moses G., patented ap- paratus of, for electrolytically obtaining aluminium, 233 Favre, M., on solution of alu- minium in hydrochloric acid,
75 Feisstritz, analysis of beauxite from, 47
Ferro-silicum, reduction of alu- minium by, 206
Fixity of aluminium, 66 Fleury, A. L., carburetted hy- drogen process of, 182 Fluoride of aluminium, Ger- hard's process of re- ducing, 181
Lauterborn's process of reducing, 206
reduction by ferro-sili- cum, 206
Fluorides as fluxes, 260
use of, as flux, 102-120 Fluorine, action on aluminium, 88
Fluorspar, action on aluminium, 84
Flux, fluorspar as, 84
use of fluorides as a, 102-120
reduction of aluminium by, Fluxes for aluminium, 259
of sodium by, 131 unsuccessful efforts of Davy to isolate aluminium by, 25
Formulæ of aluminous minerals,
France, deposits of beauxite in, 46
France, production of aluminium in, 1882, 39
successful manufacture of aluminium in, 35 Fremy, original paper on alu- minium sulphide, 310 Frishmuth, aluminium works in Philadelphia, 37
analyses of the metal of, 306 improvement of, in making aluminium-sodium double chloride, 154
plating with aluminium- nickel, 234
production of aluminium, 1883, 1884, 40
solders for aluminium by, 250
Frishmuth's first assertions not verified, 42
patent claims, 178 owners of, 37
process mentioned in Watts's Dictionary, 42
works, annual production of, 39
Fritz, Mr., of Bethlehem, Pa., interest of, in the mitis process, 287
Fusibility of aluminium, 65 Furnace, Thomson's, 146
Gallium, alloys of aluminium with, 300
Garnet, formula of, 44 Gases in aluminium, 52
from the electrical furnace, 197
Gaudin, electric process of, 230 Gay Lussac, reduction of sodium by, 131
Gerhard & Smith, patent process of, for depositing aluminium, 233
Gerhard, W. F., furnace for re- ducing aluminium, 127 German silver, aluminium, 277 Germany, aluminium works in, 33
failure of aluminium manu- facture in, 35
Gila River, N. M., native sul- phate of alumina on the, 305 Gilding of aluminium, 80, 256 Glacière, process for making alu- minium, as used at, 98 purification of aluminium from slag at, 239 Rousseau Bros., aluminium works at, 28
Glass, action of, on aluminium,
Gmelin, an observation on alu- minium amalgam, 263 Gold, alloys of aluminium with, 298
Gordon, A., on
the tensile strength of aluminium bronze, 266
Gore, deposition of aluminium on copper, 234
Granite, composition of, 43 Graphite, carbon changed to, 193
cylinders, use of, to protect retorts in sodium reduc- tion, 135
Grätzel, Richard, electrolytic pro- cess of, 228
Gravity, specific, of commercial aluminium, 307
Greenland, cryolite in, 48 Grousilliers's improvement of re- ducing under pressure, 179 Guettier, remarks on aluminium bronze, 273
Guiana, deposits of beauxite in, 46
Hadamar, analysis of beauxite from, 47
Hamburg, aluminium works at, 229
Hardness of aluminium, 61 Harmlessness of aluminium salts to the body, 79
Havrez, P. J., washing appara- tus of, 149
Heat, conduction of, by alumin- ium, 67
specific, of aluminium, 68 Helmet, an aluminium, 245
reduction of aluminium in, Herreshoff, importer of beauxite
into the United States, 47
Hesse, analysis of beauxite from, Iron, aluminium alloy, used in
deposits of beauxite in, 46 Hillebrand, description of Amer- ican cryolite, 48
Hirzel, on alloys of aluminium and silver, 296
History of aluminium, 25-42 Hodges, F., analysis of beauxite! by, 47
Hulot, coppering of aluminium, 80
method of soldering alu- minium, 248
on the use of aluminium in the battery, 75 Hunt, Dr. T. Sterry, paper on Cowles's process, 194 second paper on Cowles's process, 196
views on the aluminium industry, 42 Hydrochloric acid, action of, on aluminium, 75 Hydrogen, action on aluminium, 88
reduction of aluminium by, 181
sulphide, action of, on alu minium, 73
use of, to purify aluminium, 243
Imports of aluminium, 1870 to 1884, 40 Impurities, freeing of aluminium from, 240
Instruments, mathematical, etc., suitability of aluminium bronze for, 268
optical and portable electric, a suitable alloy for, 290 Iodine, action on aluminium, 88 Ireland, analysis of beauxite from, 47
deposits of beauxite in, 46 Iron, alloys of aluminium with, 280
with aluminium, 209 aluminium alloy, production
the mitis process, 212 coated with aluminium, 247 crucibles, use of, in purify- ing aluminium, 241 used by Rose, 106 freeing of aluminium from, 240
in commercial aluminium, estimation of, 307
oxide, action on aluminium, 86 reduction of aluminium by, 206 sulphide by, 323 Ivigtuk, Greenland, cryolite beds at, 48
Jablochoff, reduction of sodium by, 131
Javel, chemical works at, 28
process for making alumin- ium as used at, 98 Jeancon, J. A., patented process for depositing aluminium, 232
Jewelry, aluminium, 247 Johnson, double reaction method of, 184
Jouet, Mr., analysis of beauxite by, 47
Joules, on the amalgamation of aluminium, 262
Kagensbusch, electric process of, 230
of Leeds, on reduction of aluminium by zinc, 218 on reduction of aluminium by lead, 222
Kamarsch, on the tensile strength of aluminium, 63 Kerl and Stohman, directions for soldering aluminium by, 250
historical résumé by, 32 on the melting of alu- minium, 236
Klein Steinheim, analysis of beauxite from, 47
Knight, remarks on aluminium bronze, 273
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