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Scientific amusements (1890)

Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 289

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122 CHEMISTRY. in combination with gold and silver. It is like bismuth,and is lustrous in appearance. Telluretted hydrogen ishorrible as a gas. Tellurium, like selenium, sulphur, andoxygen, combines with two atoms of hydrogen. (SymbolTe, Atomic Weight 129.) Arsenic, like tellurium, possesses many… … Casting plate-glass. roasting ; and uniting with oxygen in the air, is knownas • white arsenic. The brilliant greens on papers, etc.,contain arsenic, and are poisonous on that account.Arsenic and hydrogen unite (as do sulphur and hydrogen,etc.), and produce a foetid gas of a most deadly…

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