Analysis of the mineral waters of Avon, Livingston county, New York.

  • Salisbury, Samuel, 1806-1850.
Date:
1838
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Credit: Analysis of the mineral waters of Avon, Livingston county, New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    The fluid and washings were mixed, and the excess of baryta re- moved by the excess of sulphuric acid. Operation Fourth.—S000 parts of the water were boiled in a clear flask, until the odour'was removed, the bulk being made up with pure boiling water. A precipitate had fallen, and solid matter incrustcd the flask. When the water was removed and the grayish matter washed, muriatic acid dissolved it with effer- vescence, except a few filaments of vegetable matter. Ammonia, with carbonate of potash, separated the carbonate of lime, which after drying weighed 4.OS, was while and free from silica. Operation Fifth.—The water from the deposit of operation fourth, mixed with nitric acid and nitrate of silver, was evapora- ted to a small quantity. The flakes of chloride of silver which fell during the concentration, were collected and half fused ; when cold 2.05, equivalent to .73 parts of chlorine resulted. The excess of silver was removed by muriatic acid. Operation Sixth.—When the baryta had separated from the water and washings of operation third, the clear fluid was evapo. rated, and the saline mass obtained was dried, ignited and cooled in a desiccated atmosphere. When cold, it weighed 17.93 pints and consisted of the sulphates of lime, magnesia and soda A. Operation Seventh.—Salts A. were digested twelve bourse in water saturated with sulphate of lime at a known temperature. The vessels being kept in the same fluid bath, and the insoluble part washed in much fluid, was separated, ignited, and weighed ; 9.2G parts, composed of 3,80 lime and 5.40 sulphuric acid, were obtained. This result was rendered doubtful by similar operations on the fluid of operation fifth; for, on removing the silver from this, 9.27 ignited sulphates were obtained. The former operations were deemed the most correct. Operation Eighth.—The liquor, with the washings of Salts A of operation seventh, was boiled on hydrate of lime to separate magnesia, and reduced by evaporation to a pasty mass. Boiling
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