Impure or crude carbonate of potassium is chiefly imported from America and Russia, and is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the solution to dryness.
By repeatedly roasting and lixiviating the mineral, alum is obtained in solution, and this is crystallized out by evaporation.
If it be required to purify any carbonaceous matter, to render it fitter for delicate pigments, this may be done by first calcining it in a close vessel, and then lixiviating it in water slightly acidulated by nitric acid.
Upon the ingenious disposition and form of these lixiviating cisterns much of the economy and success of an alum work depend.
A fresh quantity of water is then added, and drawn off after an interval of four hours; even a third and fourth lixiviation are had recourse to; but these weak liquors are reserved for lixiviating fresh rubbish.
On lixiviating the calcined mass, a solution of the salt is obtained, which is to be evaporated and crystallized.
Bouldoc, relative to the process of lixiviating saltpetre earths.
Hellot used, he could recover no more, by lixiviating what was left in the retort, than two ounces of a Vitriolic Salt; and even that was very earthy.
This alkaline salt may be separated from the earth, by lixiviating the ashes with water, which dissolves all the salt, and leaves the earth quite pure.
Mr. du Fay, author of some excellent chymical experiments, was one of the first who obtained a salt from Lime, by lixiviating it with a great deal of water, which he afterwards evaporated.
Such minerals continued in use as long as men were unacquainted with the art of lixiviating the salt, and causing it to crystallize; or in other words, as long as they had no vitriol-manufactories.
There is certainly reason to think that it became known to them by lixiviating earths impregnated with salts.
The crude soda ash recovered from previous boiling operations is dissolved in large lixiviating tanks and extracted with hot water.
The soda ash or sodium carbonate is obtained from the black ash by lixiviating with water, and after various purification processes, the solution is boiled down, as previously stated, by the waste heat of the black-ash furnace.
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