on the Alcohol of Sulphur, or Sulphuret of Carbon. 199 



From the mode of computation adopted by Mr. Dalton, 

 this triple acid would be composed of two atoms of muriatic 

 acid, to one of the sulphureous, and one of the carbonic acid. 

 It is a remarkable circumstance that the proportions of sulphur 

 and carbon which prevail in the sulphuret of carbon, no longer 

 obtain in this compound ; one of the atoms of sulphur being ex^ 

 pelled during the formation of the triple acid, and converted 

 into sulphuric acid, which is found in the nitro-muriatic liquor. 



The reason why the combination in question does not take 

 place on burning the sulphuret of carbon in oxymuriatic gas, 

 is that this gas does not yield a sufficient quantity of oxygen 

 to acidify the sulphur and carbon, which are to unite with the 

 muriatic acid, so that either nitric acid must be added, or a por- 

 tion of muriatic acid must be detached from the oxymuriatic 

 gas, by the agency of water, or of some other oxydated body. 



It will be necessary to give a name to this triple acid. The 

 combination of the fluoric with the boracic acid has been 

 called Jluo-bonc add; but the -word fuo does not express the 

 degree of acidification of the radical, which would be of great 

 advantage in systematic language. In the Essay on the Latin 

 Chemical Nomenclature, which I published some time ago, I 

 proposed the name of acidum boracico-fiuoricum. Upon the 

 same principle, the combination, of the muriatic and carbonic 

 acid, discovered by Mr. J. Davy, would be named acidum 

 carbonico-muriaticum ; the combination of the sulphureous and 

 muriatic acid (should such a compound be discovered), would 

 be called acidum sulphuroso-muriaticum ; and our triple acid 

 would be acidum muriaticum sulphuroso-carbonicum, a name 

 inconvenient by its length, but perfectly consonant to the 

 principles of Chemical Nomenclature. 



