A Text-book of Assaying: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Text-book of Assaying, credited to Cornelius Beringer; John Jacob Beringer, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of A Text-book of Assaying by Cornelius Beringer; John Jacob Beringer. Read in English by Peter Yearsley This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At first our intention was to supply a description of those substances only which have a commercial value, but on consideration we have added short accounts of the rarer elements..." The book's early chapters are wide-ranging, describing the general theory of assaying and a range of methods and reagents, with the later chapters describing analytical methods for different groups of metals and for some non-metallic substances. It includes many excellent illustrations of the scientific method, demonstrating the effects of changing the parameters of many of the assay techniques. It was first published in 1889; this edition in 1904. [The reader has omitted some mathematical examples, tables of data and descriptions of figures, where their inclusion would seem to over-complicate the text; and has attempted to describe many of the pieces of apparatus which are illustrated.] (Introduction by Peter Yearsley)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Text-book of Assaying
• Author credits: Cornelius Beringer; John Jacob Beringer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 23:30:37

Catalogue topics

• science
• mining
• metallurgy
• assaying
• metals

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 01 - Ch 1 - Introductory — 35:55
2. 02 - Ch 2 - Dry Gravimetric Methods — 35:28
3. 03 - Ch 3 - Wet Gravimetric Methods — 19:09
4. 04 - Ch 4 - Volumetric Assays — 39:16
5. 05 - Ch 5 - Weighing and Measuring — 22:12
6. 06 - Ch 6 - Re-agents — 47:56
7. 07 - Ch 7 - Formulae, Equations, etc. — 21:35
8. 08 - Ch 8 - Specific Gravity — 35:20
9. 09 - Ch 9, Part 1 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury — 32:35
10. 10 - Ch 9, Part 2 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury — 33:29
11. 11 - Ch 9, Part 3 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury — 23:16
12. 12 - Ch 9, Part 4 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury — 32:25
13. 13 - Ch 9, Part 5 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury — 22:35
14. 14 - Ch 9, Part 6 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury — 28:53
15. 15 - Ch 9, Part 7 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury — 27:03
16. 16 - Ch 9, Part 8 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury — 34:08
17. 17 - Ch 9, Part 9 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury — 32:30
18. 18 - Ch 9, Part 10 - Silver, Gold, Cyanides, Platinum, Mercury — 15:05
19. 19 - Ch 10, Part 1 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony — 29:08
20. 20 - Ch 10, Part 2 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony — 27:26
21. 21 - Ch 10, Part 3 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony — 35:23
22. 22 - Ch 10, Part 4 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony — 27:16
23. 23 - Ch 10, Part 5 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony — 29:46
24. 24 - Ch 10, Part 6 - Copper, Lead, Thallium, Bismuth, Antimony — 32:59

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