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... heat for several hours , changing the receiver as soon as it is filled with red vapours . The nitrous gas will thus be expelled , and the nitric acid will remain in the retort , as limpid and colourless as water . It should be kept in a ...
... heat for several hours , changing the receiver as soon as it is filled with red vapours . The nitrous gas will thus be expelled , and the nitric acid will remain in the retort , as limpid and colourless as water . It should be kept in a ...
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... heat . The com- mon salt thus separated is taken out with a perforated ladle , and a small quantity of the fluid is ... heat of one hundred and seventy - six de- grees , dissolve only 2.9 . On being exposed to a gentle heat , nitre fuses ...
... heat . The com- mon salt thus separated is taken out with a perforated ladle , and a small quantity of the fluid is ... heat of one hundred and seventy - six de- grees , dissolve only 2.9 . On being exposed to a gentle heat , nitre fuses ...
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... heat be increased to redness , the acid itself is decomposed , and a considerable quantity of tolerably pure oxygen gas is evolved , succeeded by nitrogen . This salt powerfully promotes the com- bustion of inflammable substances . Two ...
... heat be increased to redness , the acid itself is decomposed , and a considerable quantity of tolerably pure oxygen gas is evolved , succeeded by nitrogen . This salt powerfully promotes the com- bustion of inflammable substances . Two ...
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... heat . It is likewise soluble in less than its weight of alcohol . By evaporating the aqueous solu- tion to dryness , continuing the heat till the nitrate fuses , keeping it in this state five or ten minutes , and then pouring it into ...
... heat . It is likewise soluble in less than its weight of alcohol . By evaporating the aqueous solu- tion to dryness , continuing the heat till the nitrate fuses , keeping it in this state five or ten minutes , and then pouring it into ...
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... heat , the salt becomes soft like honey , and on cooling concretes into a stony mass . Exposed to the air it deli- NITRITES . Though these salts are composed of nitrous acid and certain bases , yet the only way of obtaining them is by ...
... heat , the salt becomes soft like honey , and on cooling concretes into a stony mass . Exposed to the air it deli- NITRITES . Though these salts are composed of nitrous acid and certain bases , yet the only way of obtaining them is by ...
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