"Cryolite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at Paris was about two dollars an ounce. It was at first manufactured from common clay, which contains about one-fourth its weight of aluminum, but in 1855 Rose announced to the scientific world that it could be obtained from a material called "cryolite," found in Greenland in large quantities, imported into Germany under the name of "mineral soda," and used as a washing soda and in the manufacture of soap. It consists of a double fluoride of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various |
