A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 281
rts of black oxide of manganese and oneof sulphur yields it. It must be collected either overmercury or by displacement, unless a solution in wateris wanted. Sulphurous acid is usually a transparent colorless gas,of a sour taste, and suffocating, sulphurous odor. It is Of what use is sulphur in the… … entirely irrespirable, and extinguishes flame at once, be-ing for this reason employed to put out fires in chim-neys, a handful of sulphur being burnt at the bottom ofthe flue. Its specific gravity is 2.2112 ; one hundred cu-bic inches weigh 68.48 grains. If a stream of it, whichFig. 246. has been…
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