SMELTING SILVER
All silver ores need to be fluxed for smelting.6 In Pliny's day, when almost all the ore smelted was high-grade, the addition of lead or lead ore (galena, PbS) was sufficient for fluxing (book XXXIII, sec. XXXI). By the time that Biringuccio and Agricola are writing in the 16th century, the art of fluxing has advanced in complexity but not in ...
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