|to a pale | | |standing; in 12 |muddy purple, | | |hours suffers |letting fall | | |no diminution |obscure green | | |of color. |clouds. | | | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- Alcaline lye, |Slight milky |Charged with |Less milky, |Of alkaline lye 5 drops. |cloud; becomes|terrine parts,|with less |used ten drops. |milky all |dissolved by |sediment. |--Worked no |over; a light |means of an | |sensible change |sediment of |acid; at high | |in this water. |pale earth |water more | | |coats the |acid in the | | |glass, and is |water than at | | |found at |low, and the | | |bottom. |alkaline | | | |principle in | | | |this river | | | |more at low | | | |water than | | | |at high. | | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- Solution of |A pearl- |Confirms the |Less milky; no|Mixes smoothly, Soap. |colored |former |coagulation. |and causes a |milkiness, |observation. | |slight |but no | | |lactescence. |coagulation. | | | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- A diluted acid|No perceptible|Shews an |No sensible |Upon standing of vitriol. |change. |alkaly not |change. |shews some air | |predominant. | |bubbles, and | | | |seems somewhat | | | |brighter. ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- Mercury |No change; |The quantity |The same |The same sublimate |upon standing,|of alkaly in- |appearance as |appearance, but dissolved in |a mother of |considerable. |Thames; rather|rather slighter pure water, |pearl colored | |slighter |than any of the 10 drops. |pellicle | |precipitation.|other two. |covered the | | | |surface; the | | | |liquor beneath| | |