Chemical recreations: a series of amusing ... experiments ... To which are prefixed, first lines of chemistry, etc / [Anon].
- John Joseph Griffin
- Date:
- 1824
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Chemical recreations: a series of amusing ... experiments ... To which are prefixed, first lines of chemistry, etc / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![sed, the tube must be held firmly, either by the hand, some other contrivance.—It will be seen that this eudi- eter is much inferior to Dr. Ure’s: 359. Fig. 66.—Part of an apparatus for ascertaining the intity of carbonic acid discharged from any substance ‘by addition of an acid. | It is a.piece of glass tube, of half diameter of fig. 55, bent into a zig-zag form, (which be easily done by the blow-pipe), with a cork fitted one end, and the other end drawn out to asmall point. LIST OF CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, OTHER MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES WHICH THE STUDENT SHOULD BE PROVIDED WITH, TO ENABLE HIM TO PERFORM THE . EXPERIMENTS. t is necessary, for experiments of research, .where par- lar nicety is required, to be furnished with re-agents, , in the very greatest possible degree of purity ; but, for inary purposes—for the performance of such experi- ts as the student finds either necessary or agreeable+= different substances may be made use of in the degree urity at which they are sold by respectable drugzists, at Apothecaries’ Hall. . In the experiments in: this k, for which pure preparations are requisite, directions given for purifying the preparations: of commerce, © cips,—-Sulphuric, 4 oz. per oz. 3d.—Muriatic, 4 oz. oz. 1ld.—Nitric, 4 0z. per oz, 3d-——Oxalic, }0z., ‘per 6d,—‘Tartaric, ] oz. 5d.—The sulphuric, muriatic, nitric, must be kept in bottles with glass-stopples— e: always wipe the neck of the bottle:from which a ng acid has been poured, before replacing the stopple : will keep you from burning your fingers or cloths, LKALIES.—Potass (caustic) 1 oz. 8d. This is obtained mall sticks resembling slate pencils, which must be ot in a phial well secured from air.—Liquid Ammonia 2 per oz. 2d.—to be kept ina phial with a glass stopple. [eraLs.—lIron filings, and thick polished wire.——Cop:= clippings—get some slips of thin copperplate froma persmith, which clean bright with pumice stone and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22027634_0141.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
