Hydrochloric Acid Gas

Our Hydrochloric Acid Gas experiment starts when you place a little sodium chloride in a test-tube and add a drop or two of strong sulphuric

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Bromine Gas

In the preparation of bromine, fix up your apparatus as for the preparation of nitric acid, surrounding the receiver with cold water. Mix about 4

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Laboratory Procedures

Iodine Gas

Mix about 1 or 2 grams of potassium iodide with about twice its weight of manganese dioxide, and transfer the mixture to a flask fixed

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Laboratory Procedures

Hydrofluoric Acid, Silicon Fluoride

Hydrofluoric acid can be prepared by the action of sulphuric acid on fluorspar (calcium fluoride), but glass apparatus cannot be used in the preparation on

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Sulphur Dioxide Gas

Fix up your apparatus as in the preparation of carbon dioxide, only set your flask on a retort-stand, so that it can be heated. Take

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Sulphur Trioxide Gas

The Sulphur Trioxide Gas Laboratory experiments starts when you pour about 10 c.c. of strong Nordhausen sulphuric acid (H2S2O7) into a small retort to which

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Glass Working

Before starting to work at Practical Chemistry it is necessary that the student should have some knowledge of how to cut, bend, draw down, and

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Mineralogy

Properties of Gold & Alloys

From very early times the ancients were attracted by the beautiful colour, the brilliant lustre, and the indestructibility of gold, and spared no pains in

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Mineralogy

Crystallisation of Gold

Gold crystallises in the cubic system, occurring frequently in nature in the form of cubes, octahedra and rhombic dodecahedra. Cleavage is never exhibited. Single detached

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