Electrolytic Separation, Recovery and Refining of Metals

Includes electrical facts and principles, thermal phenomena of the electrolytic separation of metals, chemical facts and principles, of chemico-electric or voltaic action, facts of electrochemical action, the generation of electric currents by dynamo practical, establishing and working an electrolytic copper refinery, advantages and disadvantages, size of the facility, arrangement of the electrodes, influence of impurities, chemical testing of solutions and deposited copper, calculating costs, other applications of electrolysis in separating and refining of metals, on copper by other methods, electrolytic separation of silver buillion, refining of lead, separation of antimony, aluminum, zinc, magnesium, sodium, potassium, gold, refining of nickel, and electric smelting.