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soluble in alcohol. It produces much cold, and a sharp bitter 
taste in the mouth. 
It is composed of. 
6 th Species . Hyperoxygenized Muriate of Ammonia. 
From the property which oxygenized muriatic acid possesses 
of decomposing ammonia, this combination may be thought 
paradoxical. For, how can an acid much more active than 
oxygenized muriatic acid exist with ammonia, which is de- 
stroyed by the latter ? But this argument may be opposed by 
the sum of affinities that act in either case. If the affinity of 
composition of oxygenized muriatic acid and of ammonia, toge- 
ther with the affinity of oxygenized muriatic acid for ammonia, 
to form oxygenized muriate of ammonia, be not more powerful 
than the affinity of oxygen for hydrogen, of azote for caloric, 
and of muriatic acid for ammonia, the divellent affinities will 
prevail ; and this is what actually happens. But, although oxy- 
gen may be held with less force of attraction in oxygenized 
than in hyperoxygenized muriatic acid, yet the affinity of the 
latter acid for ammonia may increase in a much greater ratio, 
and favour the quiescent affinities. If carbonate of ammonia be 
poured into any earthy salt of this genus, a double decomposition 
takes place; and hyperoxygenized muriate of ammonia is formed. 
This salt is very soluble in water, and in alcohol. It is de- 
composed at a very low temperature, and gives out a quantity 
Hyperoxygenized muriatic acid 
Lime - 
Water - 
55.2 
28.3 
,6,5 
100 , 0 . 
