A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 342
t by a red heat and the action of the morepowerful acids. Carbonate of lime may be obtained inunion with water by boiling hydrate of lime with sugar. The formation of stalactites and stalagmites in cavesdepends on the solubility of carbonate of lime in car-bonic acid water. As the water trickles… … Sulphate, of Lime, or Gypsum, occurs native both in What are the forms of carbonate of lime ? When does it dissolvein water? What arc stalagmites and stalactites? 330 SALTS OF LIME. crystals and in extensive crystalline masses. It con=tains two atoms of water, and forms selenite. Alabas-ter is also…
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