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Matthey writes: 'In October, 1887, I read a paper before the Royal Society [see PP/11/8] upon a new method which I incidentally discovered while working with a view to separate copper from bismuth, by fusion with bismuth sulphide. I stated in this paper that bismuth “frequently contains a small proportion of copper, an element most detrimental even in small traces, and hitherto only eliminated by a wet process, costly in practice and tedious in operation. It is necessary by such method to dissolve up the whole of the alloy, and precipitate the bismuth in the usual manner—a bulky operation, and one requiring a considerable amount of time. It became therefore advisable, in order to treat cupriferous bismuth rapidly and upon a commercial scale, to effect this separation, if possible, by means of a dry process.”'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Metallurgy / Chemistry

Received 22 December 1890. Read 8 January 1891. Communicated by George Gabriel Stokes.

A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Further contributions to the metallurgy of bismuth'.

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PP/17/4
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1890
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Matthey

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Edward Matthey, Paper, 'Further contributions to the metallurgy of bismuth' by Edward Matthey, 1890, PP/17/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_17_4/paper-further-contributions-to-the-metallurgy-of-bismuth-by-edward-matthey, accessed on 07 February 2025

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    Dates: 1882 - 1894

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