British pharmacopoeia / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Medical Act, 1858.

Date:
1864
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Credit: British pharmacopoeia / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Medical Act, 1858. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AMMONIiE BENZOAS. Benzoate of Ammonia. Characters.—In colourless laminar crystals, soluble in water and alcohol. It gives a bulky yellow precipitate with persalts of iron. Its aqueous solution when heated with caustic potash evolves am- monia, and when acidulated with hydrochloric acid gives a deposit of benzoic acid. Test.—^When heated it subhines without any residue. AMMONIA CAEBONAS. Carbonate op Ammonu. Synonym.—^Ammoni^ Sesquicarbonas, Land. Duh. Sesquicarbonate of Ammonia, 2]SrB[40, SCOa. Characters.—In translucent crystaUiue masses, with a strong am- moniacal odour, and aUialine reaction ; soluble in cold water, more sparingly in spirit; and readily dissolved by acids with effervescence. Tests. — VolatiHzes entirely when heated ; when treated with an excess of dilute nitric acid, it gives no precipitate mth chloride of bariimi or nitrate of silver. 60 gi-aiiis are exactly neutralized by 84'74 measures of the volumetric solution of oxaUc acid. Preparation.— Spiritus Ammonice aromaticus.