The latter is changed into nitrate of potassa, as we shall observe more particularly hereafter, by making a lixivium of the earth in the usual manner, and passing it through wood ashes.
Another slow match, used for common purposes, is made by soaking hempen cord in the following ley: Lixivium for slow match.
When wood ashes cannot be obtained in sufficient quantity, they make a lixivium of the earth, and boil it down, which they call thick stuff.
The cords are put into a pot, and boiled for two or three days, renewing the lixivium from time to time, as it evaporates.
The earth, however, contains calcareous nitre, and for that reason an alkaline lixivium is employed.
The strongest lixiviumobtained in extracting nitre from plaster rubbish.
The lixivium should penetrate to their centre; the difference of colour will indicate the contrary.
The ley or lixivium in which the rope is soaked, is composed of wood ashes and quick lime; and every hundred pounds of match require fifty pounds of the former, and twenty-five pounds of the latter.
A lixivium of these ashes will shew some tokens of a Fixed Alkali.
Take a lixivium of Alicant kelp made more caustic by lime, as we shall shew when we come to speak of Alkalis.
Burn it to ashes in the open air, and lixiviate those ashes: the water of the lixivium will have no Alkaline property, but will shew some tokens of its containing a little Sea-salt.
Heat this lixivium in a stone pan set on a sand-bath, and from time to time throw into it a little powdered Cream or Crystal of Tartar.
If Lead be boiled for a long time in a lixivium of fixed alkali, part of it will be dissolved.
The lixivium may then be drawn off, by a stopcock connected with a pipe at the bottom of the cistern, and run into another cistern at a somewhat lower level.
If the clear settled lixivium be now siphoned off, and concentrated by boiling in a covered iron pan, till it assumes the appearance of oil, it will constitute the common caustic of the surgeon, the potassa fusa of the shops.
For this purpose the clear lixiviumof the chromate of potash is sufficiently pure, though it should hold some alumina and silica in solution, as it generally does.
Upon a somewhat higher level the cisterns of the clear lixiviummay be placed.
This substance was so named from being prepared for commercial purposes by evaporating in iron pots the lixivium of the ashes of wood fuel.
This increase of depth and corresponding slope, facilitates the decantation of the concentrated lixivium by means of a syphon, applied at the lower end.
In some cases a third addition of fresh water may be requisite, and the weak lixivium which is drawn off may be reserved for a fresh portion of calcined mineral.
The intestines are again steeped for a night in fresh water, and the following day in an alkaline lixivium made by adding 4 ounces of potash, and as much pearlash, to a pail of water containing about 3 or 4 imperial gallons.
Ninety pounds of water are passed through; and 6 pounds of the clear lixivium are added to the boiling syrup, whereby a thick scum is raised, which is removed.
Lixivium means made into lye; hence, of the color of ashes and water.
The lixivium of tartar gave a white cloud, which hung a little above the middle of the glass.
Where alkaline lixiviumdoes not dissolve pus, it still distinguishes it from mucus; as it then prevents its diffusion through water.
If the material cannot be made to dissolve in alkaline lixivium by time and trituration, we have also reason to believe that it is pus.
Remove as much of the clear lixivium as you can; but dry the residue with a gentle fire and keep it.
Of this chloride he put a quantity into a retort, and poured over it a strong lixivium of caustic potash, The whole was digested at the temperature of 96° for six months and six days.
A sufficiently strong and well purified lixiviumof potashes is equally adapted to procure the precipitation of Magnesia, as a ley made with salt of tartar, or any other fixed alkali.
A few drops of lixivium tartari were instilled into this water without producing any sensible effervescence.
And he insists strongly on the superiority of the lixivium prepared from salt of tartar, to that made of potashes, as if the chemical effects of one, were different from the other.
He directs only one pound of lixivium tartari to five pounds of sal catharticus amarus, which is greatly insufficient to precipitate all the Magnesia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lixivium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
