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istence of this class of acid salts Rose denies. With some of 
: compounds, as the chlorid of bismuth, the decomposition 
3880 complete, if sufficient water have been added, that in the 
juid no trace, or only an infinitesimal one, can be d ¢ 
_ Where, as in the case of antimony, the liquid retains a certain 
quantity of the metal, Rose considers it to exist in the state of 
