# Modern Copper Smelting being lectures delivered at Birmingham University, greatly extended and adapted and with and introduction on the history, uses and properties of copper.

Author: Levy, Donald M.

Genre: Category: Science - Chemistry/Biochemistry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59328

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## Summary

A. i.—_Enlarged Grate Area._—In the older methods of working, there was a general tendency to employ a furnace of standard size, and improvements in the economy of the process were in the direction of reducing the fuel bill as much as possible for the given size of furnace. This was effected by keeping the grate area fairly small.

## Chapters

- [ii. By using the air blast of the furnace for](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-copper-smelting-being-lectures-delivered-at-birmingham-u-42a005a2/chapters/4/index.md)
- [v. To avoid as much as possible, waste of heat by the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-copper-smelting-being-lectures-delivered-at-birmingham-u-42a005a2/chapters/3/index.md)
- [iii. The firing and grating to be conducted so as to](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-copper-smelting-being-lectures-delivered-at-birmingham-u-42a005a2/chapters/1/index.md)
- [iii. To prevent the hearth from being cooled by the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-copper-smelting-being-lectures-delivered-at-birmingham-u-42a005a2/chapters/2/index.md)