For Things You Ought to Know Inquire Within Where You Will Find Valuable And Us
For Things You Ought to Know Inquire Within Where You Will Find Valuable And Us
Landor Walter Savage
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"). RiO per oz. 9 carat, §7. 75 per oz. GOLD, in the aits and manufactures, is valuable for its resistance to acids and the weather, and for its tenacity and malleability. So ex- treme is this, that a single grain of gold is cajiable of being drawn into 5(H> feet of wire, and of the fiucj't gold leaf it takes the thickness of 2f-'. 000 leaves to make au inch. The only acid which will act in the least upon it is a mixture of muriatic anil nitric. Pure gold will not lose a particle of weight by r...epeated melting. It assumes a greenish tinge when subjected to great heat. It is found minutely diffused in sandy quartz formations all over the world. THINGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW. 31 GREAT DOMES. St. Paul's London 112 feet diam. Baths of Caracalla 112 " " St. Sophia, Constantinople 116 " " St. Peter's, Rome 1. 39 " " Duamo, Florence 1. S9 " " Reading Room at British Museum, London. 140 " " Pantheon, Rome 142 " " THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. 215 feet high 116 201 330 310 106 143 It is 1250 miles long, 20 feet thick, and 20 feet high, with towers at short intervals from 30 to 40 feet high.
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