In order to avoid this and distinguish this mineral on the field, it should be tested with a single drop of acid, which on coming in contact with it bubbles up or effervesces like soda water, seidlitz powder, etc.
Care should be taken that only a small portion of the mineral is used, and also but little acid; the action should be observed, and is frequently a characteristic, in the case with calcspar, which effervesces while dissolving.
It looks like a limestone and effervescesfreely with an acid; but it is in fact a highly altered oligoclase-trachyte (sp.
Secondary calcite occurs in the groundmass, and the powdered rock effervesces a little in an acid.
One of them, which is light green in colour, might be taken for a limestone, since it effervesces with an acid.
The powdered material effervesces slightly with an acid.
Another specimen from 800 feet, which is apparently a tuff, contains so much lime that it effervesces freely with an acid.
After this lapse of time the sugar is entirely destroyed, and the strong koumiss which results is a thin sour fluid which effervesces briskly, and in this condition will keep for an indefinite period.
The carbonic acid, when thus liberated from its union with the lime, escapes in a gaseous form, and froths up or effervesces as it makes its way in small bubbles through the drop of liquid.
It effervesces much more slowly and feebly with acids than common limestone.
If it effervesces with acids, it contains carbonate of potassium, and if it be yellow it contains iron.
It effervesces feebly, or not at all, when shaken with a little bicarbonate of soda.
If it effervesces with acids, it contains chalk; and if it forms a paste with boiling water, it is adulterated with starch.
As it slowly absorbs the carbonic acid of the air, it generally effervesces slightly when treated with acids, and this effervescence is stronger in proportion to its age.
It effervesces slightly with diluted nitric acid, and is of different colors in different parts of the lake; in one district blue, in another red, and in a third white, hardening into a substance resembling pipeclay.
They are very common, especially in volcanic countries; and sometimes contain so much gas, that if a little sugar be thrown into the water it effervesces like soda-water.
In some species, as in Chara hispida, the plant when living contains so much carbonate of lime in its vegetable organization, independently of calcareous incrustation, that it effervesces strongly with acids when dry.
This Spirit, at least that which comes over first, retains none of the Acid of the Vinegar; seeing it neither changes the tincture of violets, nor effervesceswith Salt of Tartar.
This Acid effervesces with fixed and volatile Alkalis, and therewith forms Neutral Salts; but very different from Sea-salt, and from Sal Ammoniac.
Infusible at the blow-pipe, and effervesces but slightly when fused with glass of borax.
Scratches fluor spar; affords water by calcination in a glass tube; infusible at the blow-pipe; and effervescesslightly when fused with glass of borax.
It effervesces briskly with borax at the blow-pipe, in consequence of the disengagement of oxygen gas.
Lighter in both color and weight than the other iron ores, and unlike them siderite effervesces with acid.
Dolomite, if pure, effervesces feebly, or not at all, with cold dilute acid.
Siderite effervesces with strong acid; and this separates it from all other rocks, except limestone and dolomite; and from these it is distinguished by its high specific gravity.
It effervesces less freely with acids than pure limestone.
Inhumation has so far served to decompose the surface, as to coat it with a limy or chalky exterior, which effervesces in mineral acids.
The powder scraped from the surface effervesces in acids.
This limestone effervesces strongly with acids, breaks into irregular fragments, but with an imperfect slaty structure, and has a brown colour, with considerable lustre in the cross fracture.
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