Selenic acid has a great resemblance to sulphuric acid.
If a soluble seleniate is boiled with hydrochloric acid, selenic acid is set free, and is reduced to selenious acid, sulphurous acid will then precipitate reduced selenium from the solution.
Hydrated selenic acid is a colourless liquid, closely resembling sulphuric acid; its salts (selenates) bear the closest analogy to the sulphates.
Selenic acid may be obtained in solution by deflagrating selenium or a selenite with potassic nitrate.
Plumbic sulphide is precipitated, and the liberated selenic acid separated by filtration is concentrated until it acquires a sp.
Chladni states that an Italian physicist, Paolo Maria Terzago, on the occasion of the fall of an aerolite at Milan, in 1660, by which a Franciscan monk was killed, was the first who surmised that aerolites were of selenic origin.
The hypothesis of the selenic origin of meteoric stones depends upon a number of conditions, the accidental coincidence of which could alone convert a possible to an actual fact.
It is attacked only by boiling selenic acid which, as you must know, dissolves platinum readily.
It was not attacked by any acid except boiling selenic acid, since it formed a tremendous number of insoluble salts.
From the isomorphism of selenicacid and its salts with sulphuric acid and its salts, M.
Selenic acid dissolves zinc and iron, evolving hydrogen; it dissolves copper, evolving selenious acid; and it dissolves gold, but not platina.
The acid is isomorphous with the sulphuric, and may with propriety be called selenic acid, that described by M.
On a new Compound of Selenium and Oxygen—Selenic Acid, by MM.
Selenuret of lead, being the most abundant source, has been used for this purpose, but being accompanied by sulphuret, the selenic acid is usually contaminated by sulphuric acid.
Sulphurous acid has no action on selenic acid, but instantly decomposes the selenious acid.
Selenic acid is but little inferior to sulphuric acid in its affinity for bases; seleniate of baryta is not completely decomposed by sulphuric acid.
Selenic acid has a powerful attraction for water, and evolves much heat when mixed with it.
A solution containingselenic acid is easily decomposed, by first boiling it with muriatic acid, and then adding sulphurous acid.
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