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TABLE of the Solubility of Salts in Alcohol. 



Salts employed, all 

 deprived of their 

 >vater of cryllal- 

 lization. 



Macivuer. 



Soluble ill 288 grs. 

 of Alcoliol, of 

 about o.84fp.gr. 



Wen z EL. 



Soluble ill 240 grs. 

 of Alcoliol, of 

 abouto.S4fp.gr. 



KiRWAN. 



Soluble in 100 grs. of Alcoliol, of 



dilFerent fpccific gravity Heat, 



from 50° to 70". 



Boiling heat ufed. 



Heat various, Sp. Gr.!.Sp. Gr. Sp. Gr.'Sp. Gr. Sp. Gr. 



as fpecified. to.9 



Nitrated Potalli 

 Soda 



Ammonia 



Inline 



Alumine 



Magiiefia 



Silver 



Iron 



Copper 



Zinc 



Cobalt 



Bifmuth 



Muriated Potaib 

 Soda 



Ammonia 



I>ime 



Alumine 



Magnefia 



(dried at 120° by 

 Kir wan.) 

 Barytes 



Ditto, ditto, cryftallized 

 Muriated Iron- 



Copper 



Zinc 



Corrofive Sublimate. 

 Acetited Soda 



Lime 



Lead 



Copper 



Arfeniated Potafli 

 Soda 



Oxalic AcidiJum 



Grai 



'5 



108 

 288 



84 



4 



48 



5 



o 



24 

 283 



36 

 48 



204 



Grains. 



Grains. 



0.872 0.848 0.834. '0'8i7 



Grains.lGrains. Grains. ;Grains, 



5 boiling heat 

 23 ditto 

 214 ditto 



240 at 54" 

 694 boiling 

 1 00 ditto 

 partly decompofed. 

 240 at 54° 



decompofed. 

 240 at 54" 

 partly decompofed. 

 5 boiling 

 o 

 1 7 boiling 

 240 ditto 

 240 at 54° 

 13 13 boihng 



240 boiling 

 240 ditto 

 240 at 54° 

 212 boiling 

 112 ditto 



240 at 1 13° 



18 boiling 



9 ditto 



4 ditto 



7 ditto 



2.76 ji 

 10.5 6 



4.62 



5.8 



6.5 



21.25 



I. 

 ..56 



2.4 



1.66 



3-67 

 4-75 



50. 



0.09 

 0.06 



4.88 



On examining the comparative refiilts given in the above 

 Table, we cannot confider them as very fatisfaftoiy, and in 

 fome inftances we perceive fo linking a difference in the 

 refults, that it niuft depend on fome more extenlive caufe 

 than mere cafnal error. Probably the degree and con- 

 tinuance of heat emplovcd, in drying the fait and expelling 

 its water of ei-yllallization, mull have differed coniiderably 

 in the rcfpeftive experiments. It would beufelefri to attempt 

 to explain the caufe of difference in all the refults, but this 

 (hews the great neceflity of attending minutely to every 

 particular in fuch experiments. 



The mod important of the falts infolublc in highly recti- 

 fied alcohol are the following — all the fulphats, both of the 

 alkalies, earths and raetals ; fome of ilic jiitraied metals ; 



fome of the muriated metals ; and the carbonated fixed al- 

 kalies. 



A peculiar colour is perceived in the flame of fome of 

 thefe folutions in alcohol when fet on fire. The folutianof 

 nitre gives a pale yellow flame, that of boracic acid is a 

 faint green, all the folutions of copper burn with a beautiful 

 bright green, and tliofe of nitrated or muriated llrontian 

 fliiiie with a deep blood red. 



Ammonia, both pure and carbonated, difTolves readily in 

 alcohol. They are generally united by in< aiis of diftillalipn, 

 n moderate heat being fuflicient to volatilize each. Tlitfe 

 combinations are principally employed in pharmacy. 



Alcohol will readily unite with the carbonic acid gps, 

 and v/iU take up fidl its own bulk of it at a medium tem- 



peruiure. 



