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Excerpt from The Chemical Gazette, or Journal of Practical Chemistry, in All Its Applications to Pharmacy, Arts and Manufactures, 1847, Vol. 5
Chan. Is not altered, either in the cold or on boiling, by a solution of cl'iron; while from the solution of the nitrate or sul phate the whole of the mercury is eliminated, even in the cold, by the probosulphate of iron. The solution of the perchloride of' mer 'cury'contains consequently no muriate of the oxide which would be reduced by the protosulphate of iron. The greater afiinit of the mercury for chlorine than for oxygen is moreover-evident rom the circumstance that nitric acid, and even sulphuric acid, do not de compose the perchloride of mercury, and convert it into an salt, either with or without the application of heat. The protege? Of mercury cannot be compared with the protochloride, on account ofthe insolubility of the latter: but that the mercury is likewise, in this cue, combined more intimately with the chlorine than in the sale with oxygen and acids, is evident from the fact that the proto sulphate of iron does not decompose the moist protochloride of mercury, while the mercury is instantly precipitated in a metallic ante from a solution of the protonitrate by a solution of the proto sulphate of iron. On this account a solution of protochloride of iron likewise produces in protonitrate of mercury a precipitate of proto chloride, which is not decomposed by any excess of the protochlo ride of iron. In like manner the protochloride of mercury is not decomposed by carbonate of baryta or lime, or the bicarbonates of the fixed alkalies, while these readily decompose solutions of the protonitrate of mercury.
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