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Synonymous Names. 



{Vitriol of Zinc. 

 White Vitriol. 

 Vitriol of Goflar. 

 White Copperas. 



foluble in water; formed from blende, acidified 

 by the abforption of oxygen, and thus producing 

 the fulphuric acid, which afterwards combining 

 with the calx of zinc, compofes the Sulphate or 

 Vitriol of Zinc. Anal. Zinc 20. Sulphuric acid 

 40. Walter 40. Bergman. 



d. Blende, or Sulphurized Zinc 5 combined 

 with fulphur, iron, copper, (ilex. It is of various 

 colours, fometimes refembling galena, and hence 

 called pfeudo-galena ; when of a blackifli colour, 

 it is called blackjack. Blende, in the German, 

 fignifies blinding or deceitful. Anal. Zinc 52. 

 Sulphur 26. Iron 8. Copper 4. Silex 6. Wa- 

 ter 4. Bergman. 



O. ANTIMONY. 



ANTIMONY is about 7 times heavier than 

 water ; foluble in aqua regia, and precipitated 

 by pure water; fcarcely foluble in fulphuric or 

 nitric acid ; with muriatic acid it forms butter of 

 antimony. 



It is found in nature in the metallic ftate; in 

 the ftate of calx, mineralifed by arfenic, but moft 

 generally with fulphur, called crude antimony. 

 It is of a bluifh colour, of a lamellated and radi- 

 ated texture. 



X 2 a. Native 



