Handbook of Nonferrous Metallurgy: Recovery of the Metals, Prepared by a Staff of Specialists

New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1945. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None. Brown cloth boards, with gilt titling on spine, shelfworn with fraying at extremities. Stamp on ffep in faint black ink, 'Development & Research Department Bethlehem Steel Company.' End papers are toned with age; pages less so. Binding sound. Interior unmarked. A heavy, substantial book. 8vo. This single volume is volume two of the handbooks edited by Donald M. Liddell; (the first being Principles and Processes.) Contents include: Aluminum; Magnesium and Beryllum; The Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metals; Arsenic; Antimony; Bismuth; Lead; Treatment of Electrolytic Slime and Zinc Crust; Metallurgy of Copper; Refining of Gold and Silver Bullion; Hydrometallurgy of Gold and Silver; Hyrdrometallurgy of Copper; Electrolytic Refining of Lead; The Electrolytic Zinc Process; Pyrometallurgy of Zinc, and Cadmium; Mercury; The Role of Chlorine in Metallurgy; Chromium; Manganese; Cobalt; Nickel; Ferroalloy Metals; Radium and Uranium; Tin; Minor Metals. Includes list of contributors, Appendix, and Index. Gold and Silver Bullion; Hydrometallurgy; Electrolytic Refining; Pyrometallurgy; Ferroalloy metals; Radium and Uranium