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Athanor or 'Slow Harry', a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature, 1683.
AR925255 
Athanor or 'Slow Harry', a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature, 1683.
AR925251 
Furnace for processes where protracted heat required, such as cementation, 1580.
AR925246 
Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 1683.
AR925262 
Crystallization of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.
AR925275 
Washing ore to extract gold, 1683.
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Checking the quality of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.
AR925270 
Distillation of nitric acid (Aqua fortis or parting acid) in an 'iron man with two noses', 1689.
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Production of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.
AR925265 
Smelting of copper, 1683.
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Blast furnaces, 1683.
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Assayer testing samples of gold or silver using a balance, 1683. Artist: Lazarus Ercker
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Washing ore to extract gold, 1683.
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Preparation of copper and silver to be alloyed for production of coins, 1683.
AR924318 
Refining copper using the 'Hungarian' process, 1683.
AR922771 
Assayer testing samples of gold and silver, 1683.
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Distillation of Oil of Vitriol (sulphuric acid or H2S04), 1651.
AR925808 
Lead chambers for large-scale production of sulphuric acid, 1874.
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Lead chamber for production of sulphuric acid, 1866.
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Sectional view of lead chambers for large-scale production of sulphuric acid, 1870.
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Distillation of Nitric Acid, 1683. 
Distillation of Nitric Acid, 1683. Also known as Aqua Fortis or Parting Acid, nitric acid was widely used in the refining and assaying of metals. From a 1683 English edition of Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt by Lazarus Ercker. (Prague, 1574). 
Unique Identifier AR925257 
Type Image 
Purpose Public 
Size 4636px × 3764px 
Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY 
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