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Aluminium chloride is gradually converted into a bulky mass, insoluble in water. 
The liquid takes up a trace of aluminium compound and much chloride. 
Phosphorus chloride reacts violently, yielding a white bulky deposit. The liquid 
takes up much chloride, but only a very little phosphorus compound. The deposit 
dissolves in water, and gives the reactions of a phosphite. 
Phosphoric chloride acts at the surface of the lumps very energetically, a result no 
doubt of its having absorbed moisture ; otherwise it is only very slowly converted into 
a bulky white deposit, soluble in water. The liquid dissolves out much chloride, but 
only a little phosphorus compound. 
Arsenious chloride is rather energetically converted into a bulky white deposit. 
The liquid holds much chloride in solution, but no arsenic compound. The deposit is 
soluble in water. 
Antimonious chloride is slowly converted into a heavy white substance, insoluble in 
water, soluble in warm hydrochloric acid. The liquid takes up much chloride, but no 
antimony compound. 
Antimonic chloride is converted into a bulky precipitate, which only very slowly 
deposits. The liquid takes up much chloride, but no antimony compound. 
Bismuth chloride becomes a bulky mass. The liquid dissolves out no bismuth com- 
pound, but much chloride. 
Stannic chloride acts with only slight energy, and yields a flocculent precipitate, 
which, when the chloride has been gradually and well mixed with the liquid, is per- 
fectly soluble in water, the solution becoming clouded when heated. The liquid holds 
chloride in solution and a little tin compound, and when mixed with water becomes 
milky, either at once or upon heating. 
Platinoids chloride is first converted into Magnus’s green salt, and then rapidly takes 
up more ammonia and passes into tetrammonio-platinous chloride, much of which 
dissolves in the liquid. There is sometimes also formed a perfectly white bulky pre- 
cipitate, insoluble, or nearly so, in water, which is probably a modification of diammonio- 
platinous chloride. 
Platinic chloride (either in the ordinary dry state or after it has been heated till 
both the water and hydrochloric acid combined with it have been expelled) is scarcely 
acted upon. Its surface becomes paler, and a trace of it dissolves in the liquid. 
Auric chloride (in commercial crystals) is converted into a bulky, orange-coloured, 
crystalline matter, and at once renders the liquid bright yellow, although not much of 
it dissolves. The liquid gives a small precipitate of auric hydrate when mixed with 
water. The orange-coloured deposit is also converted into the hydrate by water. 
Sulphur chloride (yellow) reacts very energetically, and gives brown fumes which 
coat the exposed part of the tube with a brown deposit (N 2 S X). When the liquid is 
kept cool during the admixture of the chloride it assumes a handsome violet colour, 
which soon passes to a yellow one, and then entirely fades away, with a deposition of 
sulphur ; the liquid then appears to contain one or more of the thionic acids. When 
