ETHER FROM OXIMURIATIC ACID ALOffE. QJ3 



by a cake of clay exposed to the fire on a support, there will 

 necessarily he a vibration, and cracks that will determine 

 spheres of attraction, round which the particles will agglo- 

 nitrate; and the centres will be so much more numerous, 

 and the radii less, as the attractive force is more consider- 

 able. 



VI. 



Observations on the Oxigenized Muriatic Acid. By Mr, 

 Joseph Mojon, Professor of Pharmaceutic Chemistry in 

 the Medical School of the Imperial University of Genoa, , 



- #c.* 



N making oxigenized muriatic add, I have several times Oximumtic 

 had occasion to observe, after having emptied the receiver, acifi acquire* 

 into which I had distilled the acid, and left it a few hours ether: 

 exposed to the light, that the little portion of acid, which 

 commonly adheres to the irsid j of the receiver, lost entirely 

 its peculiar suffocating smell, and acquired an aromatic 

 odour perfectly analogous to that of muriatic ether. 1 re- 

 marked besides, that the oxigenized muriatic acid, though 

 retained in bottles well stopped, and luted so that the gas 

 cannot exhale, yet, if it remain some time exposed to the 

 action of the sun, not only ceases to fume, but also ac- 

 quires an ethereal smell, similar to that of muriatic alcohol 

 or ether. 



This transmutation of oxigenized into simple muriatic changed into 



acid, without the excess of oxigen being able to escape, as munaticacid 



i t i 11 • -i-i Without any 



also the ethereal smell it acquires by simple exposure to oxigen escap 



light, led ine more than once to suspect, that the oxigen in iu S 



this case, instead of being extricated in the form of gas* 



entered into fresh combinations, and formed ether. 



To convince myself whether ether were really formed, I Ether obtained 



took a bottle filled with oxigenized muriatic acid, which from some * 



had been left exposed to light almost two years, and had 



* Annoles de Chrmie, Vol. LXIV. p. 264. 



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