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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 82 — ZINC.

William Johnston translation

[It has been observed by an anonymous reviewer (British and Foreign Medical Review, vol. viii. p. 361) that a passage in Strabo authorises the belief that the ancients were acquainted with this metal in its separate state, and that it is the false silver, ψευδάργυρον, of that ancient geographer.]

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