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“One worker on one of the supports... either manually or with a trowel distributes the mortar over the chicken wire... Simultaneously, another worker from within the room... holds the mortar which is applied from the outside with a metal float or trowel in order that the mortar does not fall. Once this operation is completed, the required finish is applied both from the outside and the inside.”
“Few would defend a small view of Alchemy as "Mother of Chemistry", and confuse its true goal with those external metal arts. Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter. Not to suggest that material operations are ever abandoned. The adept holds to both the mystical and physical work.”
“Arnald of Villa Nova... was one of the earliest European inquirers who attended to chemical operations. ...[H]e firmly believed in the transmutation of metals; the same opinions are attributed to him and to Geber; and he seems to have followed the study with no other views than those of preparing medicines, and attempting the composition of the philosopher's stone.”
“Scheele discovered in 1781; and soon after a metal was extracted from it by Messrs. [ Fausto & Juan José] D' Elhuyars.”
“Although no great stress can be laid on numbers so obtained, they serve to indicate that Davy had not yet obtained the pure metal.”
“The salt of the was merely a means of union between the mercury and the sulphur, just as the vital spirit in man unites soul and body. It was doubtless devised to impart a triple form to the idea, in conformity with the method of the theological schoolmen.”
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El bronce es una aleación que consiste principalmente en cobre, comúnmente con alrededor del 12-12,5% de estaño y a menudo con la adición de otros metales y a veces no metales o metaloides. Estas adiciones producen una gama de aleaciones algunas de las cuales son más duras que el cobre solo o tienen otras propiedades útiles, como resistencia, ductilidad o maquinabilidad.
