CARBONIZATION OF TURF. \3\ 



What is remarkable on the present occasion is, that Neither of the 

 neither of the four metals recently discovered, which ac- fo^nd^th it* 1 * 

 company platina in the ore from Peru, is found in that of 

 Spain. This is a consideration of much importance, since will afford 

 it will greatly influence the means of extracting this mete!, P ure P ,atina - 

 and since it gives hopes of obtaining it in a state of purity, 

 which cannot be attained with the platina of Peru, but by 

 means of difficult processes and great expense. 



If these hopes be realized, as every thing tends to per- 

 suade us, we shall have in Europe, and at hand, a precious 

 metal, which will soon become of great utility for the 

 purposes of natural philosophy, chemistry, the arts, and 

 even domestic economy, in fabricating a variety of in- 

 struments, vessels, and utensils of every kind; since, with 

 all the advantages that gold enjoys, it unites several pro- 

 perties, that render it greatly superior to gold*. 



V. 



Carbonization of Turf, or Process by tchich all possible 

 Advantage may be derived from Products hitherto neg- 

 lected in that Operation, executed in the Year of the 

 Republic 11; by Antony Tiiillaye-Platel, House 

 Apothecary at the Hotel-Die u at Paris +. 



i- HE idea of the experiments, of which I am going to 

 give an account, was suggested to me by the discovery of 

 thermolamps. 



* Perhaps this discovery of Mr. Vauquelin may account for the Ancient 

 two ancient candlesticks in the cathedral of Hildesheim, in Lower candlesticks 

 Saxony ; made we believe long before any platina could be brought t { xe s a am y Cj r ° r ™ 

 from South America, though we do not know their exact date ; similar ore. 

 and mentioned by Professor Cramer, of that place, in his Letters 

 on Natural Philosophy. These are described as white, and nearly 

 as heavv as gold, and probably therefore consist of such an alloy 

 as would be obtained from a portion of the ore of Guadalcanal, 

 rich in platina and poor in silver ; and which Bishop Bernward, 

 their maker, though one of the most skilful metallurgists of his 

 time, did not know how to separate. T. 



-| Annales de Chimie, Vol. LV1II. p. 128, May, 180G. 



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