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630                                 GENERAL
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Venetian Glass.
In cupellation ..........................              474
Venice.
Glass-factories...........................              592
Parting with nitric acid..............              461
Scale of weights .......................              264
Ventilation ..................... 200212; 121
With bellows ...........................    207—210
With fans ...............................    203—207
With linen cloths .....................              210
With windsails ........................    200—203
Verdigris .................. 440; 1;   110; 222
In cementation ........................   454; 457
Indication of ore.......................              118
In making nitric acid ................              440
In parting gold from copper ......              464
Vermilion.
Adulteration with red-lead .........              232
Poisonous................................              215
Villacense Lead........................   239; 239
Vinegar.
Use in breaking rocks ...............   119; 118
Use in cleansing quicksilver.........              426
Use in roasting matte ...............              349
Use in softening ore ..................              231
Virgola divina (see Divining Rod).
Vitriol............... 571; 572; 403; 222; 1
In assaying..............................    237238
In cementation ........................   454; 454
Indication of copper..................              118
In making nitric acid ................    439440
In roasted ores ........................              350
In sal artificiosus ......................              483
Native .................................              Ill
Native blue .............................              109
Native white ...........................              113
Red .......................................              274
White ....................................              454
Volcanic Eruptions ...................              595
Washers ...................................                78
Washing Ore (see also Concentration,
Screening Ore, etc.)..............    300310
Water-Bags ..................... 157—159; 198
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Water-Buckets..........................    157158
Water-Wheels ......... 187; 283;   286; 319
Water-Tank, under Blast Furnaces ..............................    358367
Wealth.....................................          7—20
Wedges ....................................             150
Weights... 260—264; 616—617;   242; 263
Weisser Kis ................................              Ill
Werckschuh.................................     617; 78
Westphalia.
Smelting lead ore .....................              391
Spalling ore .............................              272
Wheelbarrows ..........................              154
Whims.......................................    164—167
White-Lead............... 440; 354;   110; 232
White Schist............ 234; 390;   234; 222
Winding Appliances (see Hauling
Appliances).
Windlasses....................... 160; 171 ; 149
Windlass Men ...........................     160; 78
Winds.
Greek and Roman names ...........                58
Sailors'names...........................       59; 60
Winds (winze) ............................              101
Windsails .................................    200203
Winzes......................................              102
Wittenberg, Capitulation of......              IX.
Wizards.
Divining rods...........................               40
Workmen..................................     98; 100
Woughs ....................................              101
Zaffre ........................................              112
Zeitz.........................................             XI.
Zinc (see also Cadmia, and Cobalt).
Historical notes............... 408—410; 354
Minerals .................................    112—113
Zinck (see Zinc).
Zinc Oxides ..............................    113; 354
Zinc Sulphate (see Vitriol).
Zincum (see Zinc).
Zoll ..........................................     617; 78
Zwickau....................................              VI.
Zwitter.......................................              110