Some Principles And Methods Of Rock Anaylsis

Author : William Francis Hillebrand
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331319156
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Some Principles and Methods of Rock Analysis (Classic Reprint) written by William Francis Hillebrand and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Principles and Methods of Rock Analysis With the introduction of improved methods of examination by the petrographer, especially as applied to thin rock sections, and the use of heavy solutions, whereby, on the one hand, the qualitative mineral composition of a rock could be preliminarily ascertained with consid crable certainty, and on the other, chemical examination Of the more or less perfectly separated ingredients was rendered possible, a great help and incentive was afforded to the few chemists engaged in rock analysis. The microscope often obviated in part the necessity for tedious and time-wasting qualitative tests, and the heavy solutions, by permitting the concentration and separation of certain components, facilitated the detection of elements whose existence had long been overlooked. Meanwhile in the progress of chemistry new methods and reagents for qualitative detection and quantitative separation and estimation were gradually being discovered and devised. The supposed adequacy of some well-established methods was Shown to be unwarranted; some had to be discarded altogether, others were still utilizable after modi fication. In the light thus Shed it became possible to explain many hitherto incomprehensiblevariations in the composition of some rock species or types, as Shown in earlier analyses, and in not a few cases it appeared that the failure to report the presence of one or more elements had obscured relations and differences which more thorough examination Showed to exist (see pp. 16 Consequently there arose a feeling of distrust of much of the older work in the minds of those chemists and petrographers best fitted to judge of its probable qualities. This, and 'the incompleteness of nearly all the earlier work (and much of that of to-day, unfortunately), as shown by the largely increased list of those elements now known to enter into the normal composition of rocks, is rendering the old material less and less avall able to meet the increasing demands of the petrographer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.