Powder of Acids decompose it

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Source: The London dispensatory [electronic resource] : containing, I. The elements of pharmacy; II. The botanical description, natural history,chemical analysis, and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeiasof the London, the Edinburgh, and the Dublin colleges of physicians : the whole forming a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics, illustrated with many useful tables and copper- by Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849; University of Glasgow. Library; University of Glasgow. Library (1822), monograph-offset-1946876-4.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Acids decompose it: Sprinkle the water on the lime, in an earthen vessel, and cover it until the lime fall to powder ; mix this when cold by trituration with the sulphur and muriate of ammonia, avoiding the vapours ; then put the mixture into a retort, and distil with a strong heat suddenly raised. Preserve the liquor thus obtained in a phial closely stopped with a glass stopper." In this process the lime decomposes the muriate of ammon

Method as extracted

1. Grind according to the source passage: Sprinkle the water on the lime, in an earthen vessel, and cover it until the lime fall to powder ; mix this when cold by trituration with the sulphur and muriate of ammonia, avoiding the vapours ; then put the mixture into a retort, and distil with a strong heat suddenly raised. Preserve the liquor thus obtained in a phial closely stopped with a glass stopper." In this process the lime decomposes the muriate of ammonia, attracting its acid, and forming a muriate of lime, while the disengaged ammonia unites with the sulphur, one part of which, however, is converted into a hydro-sulphuret, by hydrogen arising from partial decomposition of the water, which, com- bining with the sulphuret of ammonia, thus produces a hydro- gureted sulphuret of ammonia.

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