afterwards mixed with a small quantity of nitrate of potash, and fashioned into cones or cylinders of about an inch and a quarter in length, which should be thoroughly dried. The egg thus obtained can be hatched by the simple application of a lighted match, and gives rise to the phenomenon. The… … Fig. 303.— Iodide of cyanogen. genuine serpent, which has just started into existence, and stretches out its tortuous coils, endeavouring to escape from its narrow prison (fig. 304). The residue is composed partly of cyanide of mercury and of para-cyanogen; it constitutes a very poisonous…
Scientific recreations
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