The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis

For the sake of practice, and as a fitting introduction to "Determinative Mineralogy," this chapter is appended. It is not intended to give a detailed account of the minerals, b...

For the sake of convenience, rather than for scientific reasons, the following compounds have been arranged in alphabetic order. Also the oxides of the elements have been taken,...

In order to examine a substance before the blowpipe to determine the presence or absence of certain elements, it becomes necessary to arrange a systematic method. As with all br...

The blowpipe was first applied to mineral analysis in 1733 by Anton Swab, and its applications have since been improved and extended by various chemists, among whom may be menti...