Io2 Elements of Mineralogy* 



SPECIES XXI1L 

 Marine Barofelenite. 



This confifts of marine acid united to 

 bary tes ; it is faid to have been found in 

 fome mineral waters in Sweden. Rergm. 

 Sciagr. . 58. It is known by its eafy preci- 

 pitability by the vitriolic acid, and the great 

 infolubility and weight of the refulting com- 

 pound. 



SPECIES XXiV. 



Marine Selenlte 



Deliquefces ; its bafis is alfo precipitable 

 by the vitriolic acid, and its folution renders 

 that of filver in the nitrous acid turbid, at 

 the fame time that it makes no change in that 

 of nitrous felenite ; it obftinately retains its 

 acid in a red heat. 



100 parts of it contain, when,well dried, 

 about 42 of acid, 38 of earth, and 20 of 

 water. 



It is frequently found in mineral waters, 

 Monnet, 457, and fometimes in fea water, 

 Cronjl. . 128. Mon. Hydrol^ p. 206, 294, 

 but not always, i Bergm. 192, probably only 

 where the bottom of the fea is calcareous, 



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