"Hydrated oxide" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... el-Kharaj. Along the eastern flank of the Jebel el-Fahst, the "Iron Mountain," they found many outcrops of quartz, a rock which appears sporadically all the way to the northern soufrire. In two places it was green-stained, showing copper, while in another hydrated oxide and chromate of iron (hematite)[EN143] abounded. After a stage of four hours and twenty minutes they left the caravan, struck off to the west, accompanied by Shaykh Furayj, and reached their destination. Here, however, they met with accidents: the mules bolted, followed by the Shaykh's ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton |
