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The account of the refults of this operation may be rendered 

 ftill clearer by the foUqwing table. 



1080 grains pafled into the receivers at the firft diftillation, namely, 



undecompofed ammoniac 

 undccompofed nitrous acid 

 water of compofition 

 water produced 

 mephite of the vol-alkali - 



Of 409 nitrous acid," 

 from which its acidify- 

 ing oxygen, namely, 

 102,25 grains, wereex- 

 tradled, there remained 

 306,95 grains of nitrous 

 air ; and of this, after 

 the extradion of 93,91 

 of oxygen, there re- 

 mained 21 2,84 of rudi- 

 mental nitrous air. 



rudimental nitrous air 



Total 



Lofs unaccounted for 



Grs. 



32o> 

 23.76 

 152, 

 229, 

 J4I. 



212,84 



1078,60 

 1,4 



1080,0 

 Remarks 



