Download or read book Elements of Natural History, and of Chemistry, Vol. 3 written by Antoine-François de Fourcroy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Elements of Natural History, and of Chemistry, Vol. 3: Being the Second Edition of the Elementary Lectures on Those Sciences, First Published in 1782, and Now Greatly Enlarged and Improved Bifmuth is often found' native. It is known by its yellowifh brilliant colour, its foftnefs, or yielding to the knife; its laminated texture when broken, and, more fpecially, by its very great fufibility It is ordinarily cryfiallized In triangular lamium, which are placed one over the other flant wife. I am in pofiefiion of fpecimens of this femi metal, in the form of very regu lar octahedrons, its gangue is commonly quartzofe. It Is found at Scala, in Neritia, ' in Dalecarlia, and at Schneeberg in Ger many. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.