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Glass of antimony, vitrum antimonii, is a yellow to red, translucent glass created from a preparation of antimony, though historically used as an emetic, the glass was a subject of much interest from alchemists due to its unusual properties.
Virtium Solid State Storage and Memory (formerly known as Virtium Technology) is a privately held American company that manufactures semiconductor memory and solid-state disk products for data storage in industrial/machine-to-machine designs, embedded systems, including small-footprint designs, [1] and Industrial Internet of Things applications. [2]
Victorium, [1] originally named monium, is a mixture of gadolinium and terbium.In 1898, English chemist William Crookes reported his discovery of it in his inaugural address as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
According to Petronius (c. 27 AD – c. 66 AD) in his work Satyricon, the inventor of flexible glass (vitrum flexile) brought a drinking bowl made of the material before Tiberius Caesar.
Vitrification is the progressive partial fusion of a clay, or of a body, as a result of a firing process.As vitrification proceeds, the proportion of glassy bond increases and the apparent porosity of the fired product becomes progressively lower.
A Many websites state that black vitriol "is a mixture of iron sulfate and iron sulfite", but none give a reference of any sort. The book, Chemistry, Inorganic & Organic, with Experiments, by Bloxam [4] is a published, reliable reference for the composition of black vitriol, and it states on page 513, "The formula of black vitriol may be written [CuMgFeMnCoNi]SO 4 ·7H 2 O, the six isomorphous ...
The Nook 1st Edition (styled "nook") is the first generation of the Nook e-book reader developed by American book retailer Barnes & Noble, [1] based on the Android platform. The device was announced in the United States in October 2009 and was released the next month. [2]
The vitreous body (vitreous meaning "glass-like"; from Latin vitreus 'glassy', from vitrum 'glass' and -eus) is the clear gel that fills the space between the lens and the retina of the eyeball (the vitreous chamber) in humans and other vertebrates.