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contains the largest proportion of chlorine, it may be called 
stannanea, and the other compound stannane. 
Stannane is fusible at a heat below that of dull redness; it 
bears this temperature, if air be nearly excluded, without un- 
dergoing any change ; but when subjected to a heat, as strong 
as glass will bear without being fused, it appears to be, from 
the slight fume produced, partially decomposed. 
It affords the liquor of Libavius when heated with corrosive 
sublimate, nitre, red oxide of mercury, or with the hyperoxy- 
muriat of potash. In the three last instances, oxide of tin is 
also formed; and with the hyperoxymuriat, the action is so 
violent, that inflammation is actually produced. 
The liquor of Libavius and aurum musivum are formed 
when stannane is heated with sulphur. 
Stannane, by the action of water, appears to be converted 
into the insoluble submuriat of tin, and the acidulous muriat. 
The stannanea or liquor of Libavius, that I have examined, 
was made by heating together an amalgam of tin and corrosive 
sublimate, in the proportions commonly recommended. I have 
obtained this compound in another way, by treating the con- 
centrated solution of the peroxide of tin in muriatic acid, with 
strong sulphuric acid ; a gentle heat applied to this mixture 
contained, in a retort, expels the fuming liquor, which may be 
condensed, as usual, in a cold receiver. 
The only new and remarkable property, which I have ob- 
served the liquor of Libavius to possess, is, its action on oil of 
turpentine. I was led to make trial of it from an idea of Sir 
Humphry Davy, that the combinations ofthe metals and chlorine 
might be soluble in oils. In the first experiment, when I poured 
the fuming liquor into the oil, inflammation immediately took 
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