Spirit of niter

Salpetergeist, m. spirit of niter (old name for nitric acid). — verstisster —, see versiissen. [Pg.376]

In his researches on iron in plants, Lemery also discovered that by dissolving iron filings in spirit of niter [nitric acid], he could make an iron plant or tree of Mars. When Tsar Peter the Great visited the Academy, Lemery showed him this curious chemical vegetation. The... [Pg.37]

In a later passage Lemery observes the odd fact that the acid of sea salt (hydrochloric) will precipitate mercury previously dissolved by another acid, the spirit of niter (nitric acid) ... [Pg.64]

Lemery describes the preparation of the red precipitate of mercury by first dissolving metallic mercury in spirit of niter (nitric acid). The product is dried, then heated further to form the red precipitate (mercuric oxide) ... [Pg.64]

Niter or saltpeter is an important material and has its own chapter (Chapter Four). Its importance lies chiefly as the source of the spirit of niter (nitric acid), and quite a lot of its chemical behavior was known. [Pg.66]

The spirit of Wine doth very well serve to dulcifie the Spirit of Niter for being a Sulphur, it easily joyns with the acid points, and renders them uncapable of corroding as they did before. [Pg.70]

Acid spirits are Salts turned fluid by the force of fire, which hath disengaged them from their more terrestrious part, and they be revived again by pouring them upon some Alkali for example, the Spirit of Vitriol remaining some time upon Iroriy doth re incorporate into Vitriol, and the Spirit of Niter, poured upon the Salt of Tartar makes a Salt-... [Pg.71]

A spirit of niter spirit of salt spirit of vitriol... [Pg.105]

Lemery defined precipitation as an expression chemists used to describe the fall of a body which had been suspended dissolved in a liquid from which it has been subsequently disunited. Although Fontenelle construed this as a physical definition based on the principles of hydrostatics, Lemery used it to differentiate true metallic precipitates, or the products of displacement reactions, from false ones. One could obtain false precipitates, or the matters that lost their initial metallic form and were reduced to a friable and indissoluble mass, in several ways. Calcination (red and violet mercury), incomplete dissolution in acids (antimony in spirit of salt or in regal water), and calcination after dissolution and evaporation (mercury in spirit of niter), all produced such precipitates. True metallic precipitates differed from false ones in that they were directly separated from their dissolution in liquid. As Lemery put it, false precipitates were abandoned by the liquid, while true precipitates abandoned the liquid themselves. True precipitates were made sometimes naturally through agitation, but mostly with recourse to the intermediates such as alkali salts or other metals. The choice of intermediates depended on the nature of the bodies to be precipitated. Lemery provided an exhaustive discussion for each case. In order to precipitate a resinous matter dissolved in spirit of wine, one could use common water which, by meshing intimately with the spirit, would precipitate the resinous matter. Camphor in spirit of wine could thus be... [Pg.121]

Geoffroy insisted that the same theory could explain another process of making corrosive sublimate by a solution method One poured the solution of marine salt in water over the solution of quicksilver in spirit of niter. The white precipitate resulting from the mixture was sublimated to a white saline compact mass which was corrosive sublimate. [Pg.138]

Spirits of niter 70% absolute nitric acid. HNO3. and 30% water,... [Pg.20]

Sweet spirits of niter 4289 An alcoholic solution of nitrous ether. [Pg.21]

Spirit of Ethyl Nitrite. Spirit of nitrous ether sweet spirit of niter. An alcoholic soln of ethyl nitrite, contg 3.5 -4.5% ethyl nitrite. Incompat Antipyrine, tannin, acetanilide. acetophenetidin, iodides, tincture guaiac. morphine salts, carbonates, acacia. [Pg.1381]

Spirit of nitrous ether Sweet spirit of niter... [Pg.1764]

Sweet spirit of niter. See Ethyl nitrite Sweet violet extract. See Sweet violet (Viola odorata) extract... [Pg.4280]

Spirit of niter Nitric acid Spirit of vitriol Sulfuric acid Vin ar Acetic acid Sublimate Mercury(II) chloride... [Pg.143]

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