Elements of chemistry ... / Translated from the German [by Henry Stutzer].

  • Joseph Franz von Jacquin
Date:
1803
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Credit: Elements of chemistry ... / Translated from the German [by Henry Stutzer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i. fecond bottle one pint of water. The operation being finifhed the balloon was found to contain 27 ounces and 2 drams of the mod concentrated fuming nitric acid; in the firft bottle 5 ounces 6 drams of green fuming nitric acid; and, in the fecond bottle, 26 ounces of drong blue nitric acid. Bottle. Balloon No. 1 2 Water. 3 ounces 16 ounces Increafe. 27 ounces 2 drams 2 ounces 6 drains 10 ounces 19 ounces 40 ounces It thus appears that we have obtained in this opera- tion, befides the 27 ounces 2 drams of fuming fpirit of nitre, in which the acid is bound by the water contained in the fulphuric acid made ufe of, 12 ounces 6 drams of nitrous acid gaz, combined with, the 19 ounces of the water employed. Second Cafe. If, in a diftillation, where the bodies come over partly in the form of gaz, and partly in the liquid date, we widi to obtain the gaz feparately from the liquid over water or mercury, the retort is joined, as in the former cafe, with the tubulated balloon, the collateral neck of which is connefted by means of a recurved tubulated communicating t]ube with a bell glafs“* in the hydro or hydrar- * I take it for granted that the reader is acquainted with th» €ommon mode of treatment of gazeous bodies» X« X)
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