A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 250
of spongy platinum passed up throughthe quicksilver, union between the two gases rapidlytakes place, so that it is usual, in order to moderate i^saction, to mix the spongy platinum previously with alittle pipe-clay. As the gases unite the mercury rises,until at last they totally disappear. This… … taining zinc and dilute sulphuric acid, be connected bya bent tube, &, with another tube, c7, containing chlorideof calcium. The hydrogen which is evolved from theflask consequently deposits any small quantity of waterit may be contaminated with in the bulbs c c, and then,passing through the…
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