Potassium turmeric

Gelb-ingwer, m. turmeric, -kali, n. potassium ferrocyanide. -kraut, n. yellowweed, dyer s rocket (Reseda luteola). 

Test papers. Litmus, blue and red, turmeric, Congo. Potassium iodide-starch paper. 

The 3-4 Cals, here represent the heat of admixture of a mol of ammonia with water, and this is much greater than the heat of admixture of ammonia with other liquids which do not react chemically with the ammonia. There is also a possibility that ammonia hydrates. NH3.nH20, are formed, vide infra and a possibility that the ammonium hydroxide is ionized NH OH NH +OH. In agreement with the assumption that ammonium hydroxide is formed which acts as a weak base, the liquid tastes alkaline it reddens turmeric colours the juice of violets green and colours litmus, etc., the same as do soln. of the alkali hydroxides. These changes of colour disappear on exposure to air owing to the volatilization of the ammonia— the volatile alkali of the early chemists. The feeble character of ammonium hydroxide as a base is evidenced by its heat of neutralization with acids which is about 1-5 Cals, less than is the case with potassium or sodium hydroxides like other weak bases, the soln. cannot be satisfactorily titrated with phenolphthalein S. Arrhenius found that its effect on the hydrolysis of ethyl acetate is about 40 times leBS than that of sodium hydroxide and the electrical conductivity of aq. soln. of... 

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