A compendium of the course of chemical instruction in the Medical department of the University of Pennsylvania Volume 1-2
Robert Hare
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...the protosulphide in assuming a black colour, which, however, may be changed to red by sublimation. 1681. The bisulphide (artificial cinnabar) is procured in the large way, by fusing one part of sulphur, stirring in gradually six or seven of mercury, and subjecting the resulting black mass to the process of sublimation in close vessels. 1682. Kirchoff procured cinnabar by a long continued trituration of mercury and sulphur with a solution of caustic potash, aided by a gentle heat., 1683. Bisulphide of mercury is attacked neither by sulphuric, nitric nor chlorohydric acid, nor by caustic alkaline solutions; but when subjected to chlorine, either in aqueous solution as in aqua regia, or in the gaseous form, it is converted into bichloride of mercury, and bichloride of sulphur. 1684. Berzelius alleges that this bisulphide performs the part of a base in combining with the aeriform sulphacids. It also forms compounds with the bichloride, bibromide, biiodide, and bifluoride of mercury. 1685. Equal parts by weight of mercury and sulphur, triturated together, form a black mass, called, from its colpur, Ethiops mineral, which is now considered as a mixture of bisulphide of mercury and sulphur. Guibourt, who has been mentioned as questioning the existence of more than one oxide of mercury, has alleged his disbelief in the existence of more than one mercurial sulphide; the black sulphide being, in his opinion, a mixture of the red with the metal. Seftstrom controverts this allegation, and Thenard, citing his opinions and that of Guibourt, inclines in favour of those of Seftstrom. Thenard alleges that at least the protosulphide exists as a base, in combination with sulphides, acting of course as sulphacids agreeably to my definition. (631.) Of the Phogphurets of Mercur...