Excerpt from Lead-Smelting: The Construction, Equipment, and Operation of Lead Blast-Furnaces, and Observations on the Influence of Metallic Elements on Slags and the Scientific Handling of SmokeThe literature of smelting lead, gold, and silver ores with blast-furnaces is limited in volume. It has mainly emanated from students of Chemistry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.