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... zircon is quickly rendered soluble if fused with a mixture of potassium borofluoride and potassium carbonate. The author takes two parts of the former to three of the latter, and prepares an intimate, finely divided mixture, which is ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. • Various

... gunpowder is largely due to minute particles of solid matter which float in the air. About one-half of the total products of combustion of black gunpowder of ordinary composition consists of potassium carbonate in a finely divided condition and of potassium sulphate, which is produced chiefly by the burning in the air of potassium sulphide, another production of combustion, as on the outrushing gases it is borne into the air in a fine ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, Sep. 26, 1891 • Various

... it in brilliant yellow plates, melting at 320 F. By passing a stream of hydrosulphuric acid gas through the liquor the gold is precipitated in the form of sulphide. The liquid is filtered and evaporated, precipitated by an excess of a strong solution of potassium carbonate, and the alkaloid extracted by chloroform. The solution is dried over carbonate of potassium, and part of the chloroform is distilled off. By leaving the solution to evaporate spontaneously the alkaloid is obtained in silky crystals. The crystals are then dissolved in alcohol, which, on being poured ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various

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