The nature and qualities of Bristol water : illustrated by experiments and observations, with practical reflections on Bath waters, occasionally interspersed / by A. Sutherland.

  • Sutherland, Alexander, -1773
Date:
1788
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Credit: The nature and qualities of Bristol water : illustrated by experiments and observations, with practical reflections on Bath waters, occasionally interspersed / by A. Sutherland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 54 ] Now, That Adds are not all (imilar, is well known: and is demonftrablcbvabund- ance of experiments. The following will, Ihope^ give us fome light, whereby we may judge of the nature pf Acid, in. Briftol Waters. VII, Take a glafs of water, drop into it, a fo- lution of fil ver in Spirit of Nitre, and it will inftantly grow turbid, or rather milky, and foon depofit a white precipitate. YIII. In a glafs of water, pour a folution of lead in the fame Acid, and the fame effedls will be produced. COROLLARY. From thefe two experiments, it is de- jnonftrable, that a portion of Sea, or Ma- rme fait, is contained in thefe Waters ; for, by the union thereof, with the Nitrous Acid, an ^j'gua Regia is formed, which, though a folvent for gold, is not fo for fil- ver.