WITH THF, MAIUNE ACID. 329 



muriatic acid. ]>ouUluc junior recommended 

 this proccfs to the Royal Academy of Sciences 

 at Paris in the yr;r 1730; not knowing, as it 

 fccms, that it had been already employed and 

 made public by Kunkel. 



i iv. IV. What are tbe Eft-els of tbe Vitriolic and 

 Nitrous A: ids itfcd together to this Purpofe ? 



THE united powers of tlic vitriolic and ni- 

 trous acids may be varioufly directed to the prc- 

 paragon of the c >rroiive mercurial fubliniatc. 

 And, in l he fir ft place, the procels may be in- 

 flituted \\ith any acid united to its bale; and 

 mercury, vitriol, common fait, and nitre, may 

 be triturated together, and the fublimation pro- 

 ceed afterwards very fucccfshilly. The object 

 of this method is the expullion of the nitrous 

 acid from its bafe by the vitriolic ; fo that being 

 thus free, it may immediately con ode the mer- 

 cury ; and that the muriatic acid, unequal in 

 force to the other two, may unite with the mer- 

 cury, after the corrolion with the nitrous acid 

 is complete. Tachenius *, Junker t, and others, 

 recommend this preparation of corrofive mer- 

 cury. For the fake of promoting the extincti- 

 on of the mercury, 7,wclfer {, Jac. le Aiurt }, and 



the 



* Hlppocr Chcm. 



f Coulp 'hern. 



: Pharm. Ki-p i^>7?. 



| Them. Mid Phyf. 1618. 



