A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 388
issolves in aqua regia. It pos-sesses the extraordinary property of causing hydrogenand oxygen to unite at common temperatures, an effectwhich takes place with remarkable energy when themetal is in a spongy state. A jet of hydrogen fallingupon spongy platinum in the air makes it red-hot, and Of… … IRIDIUM. RHODIUM. 375 presently after the gas takes fire. It also brings aboutthe rapid transformation of alcohol into acetic acid, andvarious other chemical changes. If a quantity of ether be poured Fig.m. into a glass jar, Fig, 291, and a coilof platinum wire, recently ignited, beintroduced, the…
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