"Triacid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rather the proportions of acid radicals in salts, due to the varying appetites or combining powers of bases. Sodium only forms simple monoacid salts, as sodium chloride (NaCl), sodium sulphate (Na{2}SO{4}); calcium forms diacid salts, e.g. calcium chloride (CaCl{2}); and aluminium and iron, triacid salts, for example, aluminium sulphate [Al{2}(SO{4}){3}] and iron (ferric) sulphate [Fe{2}(SO{4}){3}]. Now in these triacid salts we can remove some of the acid groups and substitute the elements of water, OH, or hydroxyl, as it is called, for them. Such salts, then, ...
— The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing - Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association • Watson Smith |
