Description | Paper describing experiments to dissolve gold using aqua regia and separate the resulting liquids. The author also discusses gold-tinted glass sticks made with small amounts of gold in Venice [Italy], and his attempt to recreate the sticks using white sand, nitre, ceruss [cerussite], borrax [borax], salt, and fine gold.
Subject: Chemistry
Read to the Royal Society on 26 February 1729. |