It turns the color of a piece of litmus paper placed in the cell and produces an increased pressure in the cell, the air remaining in the latter, because oxygen and nitrogen are very little soluble in water.
The secretion beneath the meat was tested by pushing a strip of litmus paper under it (the filaments not being touched), and this slight stimulus caused the leaf to shut.
The most of their neutral salts are insoluble in water; the soluble neutral salts change blue litmus paper to red, and lose their acids when ignited.
Its soluble neutral salts change blue litmus paper to red, and are converted, by admixture of water, into insoluble basic and soluble acid salts.
I found them both to have an acid reaction on litmus paper, the contents of the beer bottle very decidedly so; but on the application of the usual tests employed for the detection of oxalic acid, not a trace of it could be found.
The few drops of liquid which were in the phial before mentioned were now examined: they had no action on litmus paper, they smelt of camphor and acetate of ammonia.
The oxide is a green powder, readily and completely soluble in hydrochloric acid, and without action on litmus paper.
For ordinary purposes it is best used as litmus paper, which may be purchased in small books.
The reaction to litmus paper is tried from time to time.
Applied to gums on litmus paper: Chlorlyptus: Red color becomes gradually feebler and does not spread on the paper.
The pole b, though drawn through a much greater depth and quantity of fluid, was found so acid as to give abundant evidence to litmus paper, the tongue, and other tests.
A similar piece of litmus paper, dipped in solution of sulphate of soda n, fig.
A piece of litmus papermoistened in solution of common salt or sulphate of soda, was quickly reddened at p.
Aldehyde is recognised by its reducing action on argentic nitrate; the mineral acids by the reddening of litmus paper, and the appropriate tests.
It does not blue red-litmus paper, but nevertheless acts as a weak alkali, for it precipitates iron from its salts.
When thus prepared, it is called saturated alum, though it is by no means neutral to litmus paper; but it crystallizes differently from ordinary alum.
The same combination takes place, if we decompose a boiling hot solution of alum with a solution of potash, till the mixture appears nearly neutral by litmus paper.
Bleach a piece of litmus paper, and try to restore the color with NH4OH.
Neutralise carefully to litmus paper by the successive additions of small quantities of normal soda solution.
Render the reaction of the medium neutral to litmus paper by the cautious addition of normal caustic soda.
Neutralise carefully to litmus paper by the successive additions of small quantities of decinormal soda solution.
It was now suspected that all mineral substances, emitting an argillaceous odour, contained ammonia; a great number of specimens were tried, being moistened with solution of caustic potash, and examined by litmus paper.
Continuing the introduction of the chlorine, the solution in the first bottle gradually became yellow, the gas not being yet visible by its colour in the atmosphere above the solution, although chlorine could be detected there by litmus paper.
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