Electric Furnaces and Their Industrial Applications (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Electric Furnaces and Their Industrial Applications (Classic Reprint) written by Consultant in Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health John Wright and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Electric Furnaces and Their Industrial Applications There is also a type of furnace which the author proposes to include in this work, with the object of rendering it complete, and that is the electrolytic type. Although not, strictly speaking, furnaces, in the ordinary acceptation of' the term, there are several forms of apparatus which depend for their action on a combination of thermal, electrolytic, and chemical effects. Since the office of the furnace proper, viz., that of heating the raw materials, is an essential auxiliary in such cases, it has been resolved to include them in the pages which follow, the necessary line of demarcation between a thermal and an electrolytic process pure and simple being determined by the presence of an aqueous solution. Only such methods and apparatus will be dealt. With as involve the presence of a fused electrolyte. 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.