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Example sentences for "white powder"

  • On being allowed to repose, it deposited a white powder, which was found on examination to possess the external characters and all the chemical properties peculiar to arsenious acid, that is, the common white arsenic of the shops.

  • If arsenic has been given in the solid form, the greater part will remain insoluble, and will be found either in lumps or powder in the stomach, or as a white powder adhering to its lining.

  • Mercury decomposes it, and a white powder (calomel) is formed, while the azote is set at liberty.

  • Oxalic acid does not act on mercury, but dissolves its oxide, and forms with it a white powder.

  • A white fume then begins to undulate on the surface of the liquor, and a white powder precipitates, which is the fulminating mercury.

  • When sulphate of copper is heated, it is converted into a bluish-white powder.

  • If the water of crystallisation be removed by heating the crystals to redness, a colourless anhydrous substance is obtained (a white powder).

  • It presents the appearance of a white powder, nearly insoluble in water, and rapidly passing to a higher state of oxidation by exposure to the air.

  • Chloride of lime is a pale, yellowish-white powder, generally more or less damp, and evolving a chlorine-like odour of hypochlorous acid.

  • May be precipitated from ferrous solutions as a white powder, by alkaline hydrates.

  • A white powder obtained by precipitating ferric chloride by sodium phosphate.

  • It is a white powder, insoluble in water, although it readily dissolves in acids, being decomposed by them and converted into soluble acid phosphates, as explained in connection with the acids of phosphorus.

  • The resulting calcium carbonate (CaCO{3}) is insoluble in water and separates in the form of a white powder, which causes the solution to appear milky.

  • It is a white powder, very soft and light, and is unchanged by heat even at very high temperatures.

  • It is a yellowish-white powder made by burning sodium in air.

  • When newly precipitated alumina is boiled in a solution of alum, a portion of the earth enters into combination with the salt, constituting an insoluble compound, which falls in the form of a white powder.

  • A white powder remained, amounting to about one-tenth of the matter employed, and which was found to be alumina.

  • The two salts exchange bases, and a protochloride of mercury precipitates in a white powder, which, after being digested for some time in the acidulous supernatant liquor, is to be washed with the greatest care in boiling water.

  • If the solution be too strong, the bronzing comes off with friction, or the copper gets covered with a white powder, which becomes green by exposure to air, and the labour is consequently lost.

  • In a case which Schauenstein has recorded[439] he found strychnine still undissolved, coating the stomach as a white powder; but this is very unusual, and I believe unique.

  • Commercial strychnine is met with either in colourless crystals or as a white powder, the most usual form being that of the alkaloid itself; but the nitrate, sulphate, and acetate are also sold to a small extent.

  • Morphine occurs in commerce as a white powder, sp.

  • The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties.

  • C, it loses about two-thirds of this water, yielding a white powder known as plaster of Paris.

  • Lead Sulphate, the chief impurity of commercial oil of vitriol, is a white powder which is very often used for making white paint in place of lead carbonate (white lead).

  • It is a fine, white powder similar in appearance to the efflorescence on soda crystals.

  • Bismuth sulphate, Bi2(SO4)3, is obtained as a white powder by dissolving the metal or sulphide in concentrated sulphuric acid.

  • The Hydrate, Bi(OH)3, is obtained as a white powder by adding potash to a solution of a bismuth salt.

  • When sparingly moistened with water, it slakes, becomes heated, and forms a dry, white powder.

  • In the pure state this oxide is a white powder, is fusible at a dull red heat to a yellow liquid, which, after cooling, is greyish-white and crystalline.

  • In the pure state, oxide of zinc is a white powder, infusible, and not volatile.

  • A complex nitrogenous substance related to urea and uric acid, produced as a white powder; -- so called because it forms yellow salts, and because its solution forms a blue fluorescence like quinine.

  • A drop of sulphuric acid, precipitates barites in the form of a white powder.

  • A white fume will soon begin to undulate on the surface of the liquor, and flow through the neck of the flask, and a white powder will be gradually precipitated.

  • It absorbs the acid, and remains united with it in the form of a white powder, at the bottom of the vessel, while the liquor has hardly any taste, and shews only a very light cloud upon the addition of alkali.

  • The greatest part of the earth now left in the filtre is calcarious, and the liquor which passed thro', if mixed with a dissolved alkali, yields a white powder, the largest portion of which is a true magnesia.


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