SODA.'

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In one of my experiments where were employed 3500 grains=half a pound avoir-dupois, of each ingredient, the following were the products :—

Grains.

1. Ammonia recovered by distillation from the drained magma,

equivalent in sesqui-carbonate to 25.7

2. Ammonia as carbonate, from the remaining liquid, sucked into a

vacuous apparatus and distilled - 1509

3. Additional ammonia as carbonate, obtained from the cold mother

liquors, by distillation with quicklime, and out of the salammoniac formed.. . 775

2541

Sesqui carbonate employed - - - - * - - 3500

Loss ----- 959

or 27*4 per cent.

The product from this experiment in dry soda ash was only 1500 grains, which were

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