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ARTHUR, Robert (1819 – 1880)

1819 – 1880

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1857 CE

#12886

A treatise on the use of adhesive gold foil.

In 1855, Robert Arthur discovered that by heating the gold foil impurities could be driven off, and the gold could be made to adhere to itself, a property known as cohesion. He passed each portion of foil through a fl…