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The powder, therefore, was a practicallj^ pure acid calcium arsenate. 



This substance proved very soluble on standing twenty-four hours, 

 44.82 per cent of the arsenic pentoxide entering into solution. The addi- 

 tion of milk of lime to the material was therefore tried, and after 1 per 

 cent of this had been added, the amount dissolved was only .17 per cent. 

 As finally used, the spray was accordingly prepared as follows: — • 



Four pounds of quicklime were slaked in about 40 gallons of wate^, 

 just enough water being added at a time to maintain a brisk action with- 

 out "drowning" the lime. After the slaking was completed, enough more 

 water to make 50 gallons in all was added. Eighty-five hundredths of a 

 pound of the arsenate was then mixed in, this being the amount calculated 

 as necessary to give the spraj' the same strength of arsenic pentoxide as 

 that of the lead arsenate spraj^s, in order to make the tests comparative. 

 The material was strained into the spray pump and kept well agitated. 



Commercial Calcium Arsenate. — This was a bulky, white powder con- 

 sisting of minute spherical particles. It was purchased in the market, 

 and on analysis proved not to be similar to the pufe material considered 

 above, but a combination of calcium and arsenic acid, with a considerable 

 excess of lime. It might, perhaps, be fairlj^ described as a basic lime 

 arsenate. Its analysis gave — 



Water, H^O .... 



Water in combination and occluded 



Ferric and aluminum oxides 



Calcium oxide, CaO 



Magnesium oxide, RlgO 



Sodium oxide, NaoO 



Arsenic pentoxide, AS2O6 



Sulfur trioxide, SO3 



Chlorine, CI 



Soluble silica, Si02 



Acid insoluble matter . 



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