Rupert, Prince

Glas-tiegel, m. glass crucible, glass pot. -trane, /. glass tear. Prince Rupert s drop, -trichter, m. glass funnel. 

Prinzipskizze,/, diagrammatic sketch. Prinzmetall, n. Prince s metal. Prince Rupert s metal. 

Prince s metal - said to have been invented by Prince Rupert in 1680 for casting guns - 73% Cu, 27% Zn (Lones, 1919), but equal quantities copper and zinc (Aitken, 1866). 

Boghossian N. D. and Gehrels G. E. (2000) Nd isotopic signature of metasedimentary pendants in the Coast Plutonic Complex between Prince Rupert and Bella Coola, British Columbia. In Tectonics of the Coast Mountains, Southeastern Alaska and Coastal British Columbia (eds. H. H Stowell and W. C. McClelland). Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap. 343, 77-87. 

Patchett P. J., Gehrels G. E., and Isachsen C. E. (1998) Nd isotopic characteristics of metamorphic and plutonic rocks of the Coast Mountains near Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Can. J. Earth Sci. 35, 556-561. 

Prince Rupert s drops provide an interesting and easily made example of the effects of stressing glass. 

Provided that the drop is not too big and has therefore broken spontaneously in the beaker, and provided that the glass was free from airlines which would expand and relieve the internal stresses, then all attempts to break the Prince Rupert s drop will fail. If, however, the tail is broken off, the drop breaks, with an appreciable shock, into very small... 

FIG. 5.4. Prince Rupert s drops, (a) Shows tire heated glass about to drop into a beaker of water. Typical shapes for tliese drops are shown in (b). 

At the peak of its operation in 1980, the mine had 900 employees. The orebody was mined by conventional open-pit, truck-and-shovel methods. A total of 400 million dry short tons (364 million metric tons) was removed, and processed for recovery of copper and molybdenum. An additional 600 million short tons (545 million metric tons) of overburden were excavated, resulting in an oval pit that was 7,900 feet (2,408 meters) long, 3,500 feet (1,067 meters) wide, with a bottom elevation 1,322 feet (403 meters) below sea level. The operation had two unique features Mill tailings were deposited below the ocean surface in Prince Rupert Inlet, and a plastic concrete seepage barrier, 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) long, 108 feet (33 meters) deep, but only 2.8 feet (0.86 meters) wide, was installed along the original shoreline of the inlet. 

Prince Rupert s drop 2373 A specially made drop of glass which shatters when Its tall Is snapped. 

Figure 11. Light microscope photomicrograph of Thuja. plicsAsi from 2500-year-old wood from the wet terrestrial Lachane site Prince Rupert y B.C., Canada. The histological transverse preparation shows the sequence of deterioration of the Ss and S3 cell wall layers of tracheids. In the first stages the presence of enlarged pits associated with dark amorphous material suggests bacterial activity. The amorphous remnants of the cell walls cause shrinkage on drying.

Prince Rupert of Bavaria (1619-1682) was the grandson of James I of England and nephew of Charles II. He introduced his drops to England in the 1640s, where they became party pieces in the court of Charles II. The famous diarist Samuel Pepys wrote about them in his diary on January 13, 1662. 

Anonymous (1977). "Annual Review of Oilseeds, Oilcakes and Other Commodities". Frank Fehr Co. Ltd., Prince Rupert House, London. 

Prince Rupert s Drops. Drops of glass that have been highly stressed by... 

Wolf, D.E., Andronicos, C.L., Vervoort, J.D., Mansfield, M.R., and Chardon, D. (2010) Application of Lu-Hf garnet dating to imravel the relationships between deformation, metamorphism and plutonism an example from the Prince Rupert area, British Columbia. Tectonophysics, 485 (1—4), 62—77. 

In the earliest days of the industry, liquid sulfur was allowed to solidify into blocks and was then dug out by hand or mechanical shovel, or blown apart by dynamite. The sulfur chimks are friable, forming dust easily. The dust from broken sulfur was more than just a nuisance, as it posed a dust-explosion hazard. Broken sulfur shipments largely disappeared after liquid shipments took over after World War II. However, Alberta was too far from oeean ports to justify liqirid sirl-fur movements overseas. While Canada ships over one million tonnes of liquid sulfur by rail car into the U.S. every year, it has never shipped liquid sulfur by vessel. A major project was undertaken to develop such a mode of transportation in the late 1990 s. The Sulfur Corporation of Canada began construction of a liquid sulfur terminal at Prince Rupert, BC, in 1999, but the company ran out of cash in July 2002, and was forced to abandon its project. In 2010, the project was looked into again by ICEC Terminals. 

However, the Vancouver facilities have often been unable to keep up to the escalating demand for sulfur, forcing exporters to other ports. For example, in 1974 and 1975, 100,000 tonnes of sulfur were shipped out of Churchill, MB (Amoco), Thimder Bay, ON (Shell), and Quebec City, QC (Suncor). In the following year, 150,000 tonnes were shipped out of the latter two ports, but shipments through Churchill had ceased the previous year. In 1977, the non-Vancouver shipments had ended, but two years later, exports out of Thunder Bay restarted (150,000 tonnes in 1980) and small volumes were shipped out of Prince Rupert,... 

BC, which increased to 100,000 tonnes the following year. A Fletcher process sulfur granulator was installed at Prince Rupert by Real International Marketing Limited in 1981. Vancouver, though, remains the Canadian sulfixr gateway to the world. 

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