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Sulphur and Phosphorus, 
decomposed,! employed cold water in the next experiment, and 
dried the gas by muriate of lime ; in this case, though Sicilian 
sulphur was used, no oxygene gas was evolved ; and not a half 
a cubical inch of muriatic acid; the quantity was the same as in 
the last experiment ; and it was found, that between 16 and 1 7 
cubical inches of oxymuriatic acid gas disappeared ; the whole 
of the sulphur was sublimed in the gas, and the liquor formed, 
was of a tawney orange colour. 
No oxygene was expelled during the combustion of phos- 
phorus in oxymuriatic acid gas, nor could I ascertain that any 
muriatic acid had been formed ; 3 grains of phosphorus were 
entirely converted into sublimate, by the absorption of about 
23 cubical inches and a half of the gas. 
It would seem from these quantities, that the sulphuretted 
liquor formed by subliming sulphur in oxymuriatic acid gas, 
consists cf 1 proportion of sulphur, represented by 33.5, and 
1 of oxymuriatic gas represented by 32 9, and that the phos- 
phoric sublimate must be composed of 3 portions of oxymu- 
riatic gas, represented by 38.7, and 1 of phosphorus represented 
by 1 6.5 
