Miller process Miller process The Miller process is an industrial-scale chemical procedure used to refine gold to a high degree of purity (99.95%). It was invented by Francis Bowyer Miller ( patented 1867). This chemical process involves blowing a stream of pure chlorine gas over and through a crucible filled with molten, but impure, gold. This process purifies the gold because nearly all other elements will form chlorides before gold does, and they can then be removed as salts that are insoluble in the molten metal. When all impurities have been removed from the gold (observable by a change in flame color)
Near to the Wild Heart combining the “intellectual lucidity of the characters of Dostoevsky with the purity of a child.” A Manhã ("The Morning"), not going quite as far as Lêdo Ivo, had declared it to be “the greatest debut novel a woman had written in all of Brazilian literature.” In October 1944, the book won the prestigious Graça Aranha Prize ("Prêmio Graça Aranha") for the best debut novel of 1943. The prize was a confirmation of what the "Folha Carioca" had discovered earlier that year when it asked its readers to elect the best novel of 1943. "Near to the Wild Heart" won with