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Discovering the 8th metal (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Agricola (Figure 4) in 1546 reported that a white metal was condensed and scraped off the walls of the furnace when Rammelsberg ore was smelted in the Harz Mountains to obtain lead and silver to which he gave the name "contrefey" because it was used to imitate gold. |
| | Marggraf was probably unaware that in 1742, the Swedish chemist Anton von Swab (1703-1768) had distilled zinc from calamine and that, two years later, he had even prepared it from blende. |
| | Fathi Habashi is Professor of Extractive Metallurgy at the Department of Mining and Metallurgy, Université Laval, Québec Cty, Canada G1K 7P4. |
| www.iza.com /zwo_org/Publications/Discovering/0202.htm (1986 words) |
