British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... muriatic , or acetic ether . Sulphuric ether has been longest known . The following is the process by which it is prepared . Upon a quantity of alcohol in a retort , ( selected thin at the bottom , so as to be capable of bearing a ...
... muriatic , or acetic ether . Sulphuric ether has been longest known . The following is the process by which it is prepared . Upon a quantity of alcohol in a retort , ( selected thin at the bottom , so as to be capable of bearing a ...
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... muriatic acid , but it can with facility from the oxymuriatic ; it is like- wise formed with great rapidity by the nitric acid ; neither of which can exert a strong disposing affinity to water , though both very readily part with their ...
... muriatic acid , but it can with facility from the oxymuriatic ; it is like- wise formed with great rapidity by the nitric acid ; neither of which can exert a strong disposing affinity to water , though both very readily part with their ...
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... Muriatic ether . Pelletier proposes the following process to form muriatic ether : place a retort in a sand - bath , and con- nect it with a glass balloon , and two of Woulfe's bottles : put into the bottle 100 parts of muriate of soda ...
... Muriatic ether . Pelletier proposes the following process to form muriatic ether : place a retort in a sand - bath , and con- nect it with a glass balloon , and two of Woulfe's bottles : put into the bottle 100 parts of muriate of soda ...
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... muriatic acid , a precipitate is ob- ed to heat , it contracts very suddenly , tained similar to that from animal soap , 1st . Sums or Polygons . 2d . Sums ,. FEVERFEW . See MATRICARIA , FEUILLEA , in botany , so called in ho- nour of ...
... muriatic acid , a precipitate is ob- ed to heat , it contracts very suddenly , tained similar to that from animal soap , 1st . Sums or Polygons . 2d . Sums ,. FEVERFEW . See MATRICARIA , FEUILLEA , in botany , so called in ho- nour of ...
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... muriatic acid . It is heavier than com- mon air , and corrodes the skin . When water is admitted in contact with this gas , it absorbs it rapidly ; and if the gas be obtained by means of glass vessels , it deposits at the same time a ...
... muriatic acid . It is heavier than com- mon air , and corrodes the skin . When water is admitted in contact with this gas , it absorbs it rapidly ; and if the gas be obtained by means of glass vessels , it deposits at the same time a ...
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