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It seems more probable that the chlorhydric acid is 
what exerts the needed influence. 
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hottest summer weather They unite with water in all propor- 
tons without change. Weak acids produce no alteration of the 
va alkaline carbonates in e , precipitate a yellow 
basic nitrates of iron mentioned in a former volume of this 
Journal,* And in making the tin solutions, as in adding iron to 
utric acid, the reddish color begins to appear when the com- 
o pounds begin to become basi 
| Mm neither the highest nor the lowest degree of oxydation. The 
Protochlorid of tin cannot be made in the slightest degree basic 
without preeipitation; and the same seems to be true of all 
* wt * Vol. ix, [2], p. 30. 
