 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1807 - 382 pages
...cold ; and that when exposed to the air it increased in weight daily at the rate of a hundred weight per ton for the first five or six days after it was drawn from the kiln. This fact is worth the notice of those farmers who fetch their lime from great distances. In the Journal... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1814 - 584 pages
...that when exposed to the air it increased in weight daily at the rate of a hundred weight per ton fof the first five or six days' after it was drawn from the kiln. What are the chief uses of lime ? Lime united with the acids is applied to various useful purposes,... | |
 | James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 684 pages
...; and that, when exposed to the air, it increased in weight daily, at the rale of a hundred weight per ton, for the first five or six days after it was drawn from the kiln. Hence those who have to fetch lime from great distances may •ave even in point of cartage, by receiving... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1816 - 584 pages
...that when ex|K»*ed to th«r air it increased in weight daily at the rate of a hundred weight pttou for the first five or six days after it was drawn from the kiln Wluft are the chief uses of lime ? Lime united with the acjds is applied to variout useful purposes,... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1818 - 616 pages
...cold ; aud that when exposed to the air it increased in weight daily at the rate of a hundred weight per ton for the first five or six days after it was drawn from the kiln This fact is worth the notice of those farmers who fetch their lime from great distances. In the Journal... | |
 | John S. Skinner, Editor. - 1826 - 438 pages
...cold; and that when exposed to the air it increased in weight daily, at the rate of a hundred weight per ton, for the first five or six days after it was drawn from the kiln.— Bit/top Walton. These facts suggest the importance of transporting lime, where it is to be used at... | |
 | Francis S. Wiggins - Agriculture - 1840 - 512 pages
...cold; and that when exposed to the air it increased in weight daily, at the rate of a hundred weight per ton, for the first five or six days after it was drawn from the kiln. A ton of fresh well burnt lime will absorb 680 pounds, 6r nearly one-third of its weight of water,... | |
 | James Day - Railroad engineering - 1848 - 240 pages
...; but that, when exposed to the air, it increased in weight daily, at the rate of a hundred -weight per ton, for the first five or six days after it was...observing that the whole operation should be as rapid as possible. This method prevents the gas, or strength of the lime, from escaping, and by the sand and... | |
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Watson found by experiment that upon an average every ton of limestone produced i icwt. iqr. ^.Ibs. of quick-lime, weighed before it was cold ; and that when exposed to the air it increased in weight daily at the rate of a hundred weight per ton for the... 