HYDROXYLAMIXE AND ITS SALTS. ROSS. 



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From the above results, it may be seen that the nitrate 

 has a greater conductivity than the chloride, which in turn has 

 a (Tfreater conductivity tlian the sulphate. This is different from 

 what might be expected from a comparison of the corresponding 

 salts of the alkalies. In the case of these salts, the chlorides, 

 without exception, have a greater conductivit}'' than the nitrates. 

 The sulphates, however, as in the case of the hj'droxylamine 

 salt, have the lowest conductivity. When making a comparison 

 with the salts of copper, cadmium, etc., it is seen that the 

 nitrates, as in the case of- the hydroxylamine salt, have the great- 

 est conductivities. Ifc seems probable, therefore, that hydroxy- 

 lamine nitrate, differing from the other salts of hydroxylamine 

 in being a liquid at oidinary temperatures, also differs from the 

 chlorides and sulphates in its greater dissociation. 



In the follow^ing table the conductivities^ of a few salts of 

 sodium, potassium and ammonium are given for the sake of com- 

 parison with those of hydroxylamine : — 



» Whetham, Theory of Solutions, p. 407 (1902). 



