﻿ARTICLE 
  XIX. 
  

  

  Process 
  for 
  Nitric 
  Ether, 
  or 
  Sweet 
  Spirits 
  of 
  Nitre, 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  an 
  

   approved 
  Apparatus. 
  By 
  R. 
  Hare, 
  M. 
  D., 
  fyc, 
  fyc, 
  fyc. 
  

  

  The 
  reaction 
  of 
  nitric 
  acid 
  with 
  alcohol 
  is 
  so 
  difficult 
  to 
  regulate, 
  

   in 
  the 
  ordinary 
  mode 
  of 
  making 
  nitric 
  ether 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  

   the 
  materials 
  are 
  mingled 
  at 
  the 
  outset 
  of 
  the 
  process, 
  that 
  I 
  was 
  in- 
  

   duced, 
  about 
  twelve 
  or 
  fifteen 
  years 
  ago, 
  to 
  introduce 
  an 
  apparatus 
  in 
  

   which 
  they 
  were 
  gradually 
  added 
  together 
  within 
  a 
  glass 
  bottle, 
  by 
  

   means 
  of 
  glass 
  funnels 
  with 
  glass 
  cocks. 
  

  

  Subsequently 
  I 
  adopted 
  the 
  more 
  simple 
  apparatus 
  represented 
  in 
  

   the 
  accompanying 
  figure. 
  

  

  Providing 
  a 
  bottle 
  with 
  three 
  tubulures, 
  let 
  one 
  tubulure 
  communi- 
  

   cate, 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  a 
  recurved 
  tube 
  A, 
  with 
  another 
  tube 
  passing 
  per- 
  

   pendicularly 
  through 
  an 
  open-necked 
  inverted 
  receiver 
  C, 
  and 
  entering 
  

   vol. 
  v. 
  — 
  4 
  R 
  

  

  