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  • vegetable alkali in certain minerals, such as leucite, proposed to distinguish it as potash, and at the same time assigned to the mineral alkali the name...
    328 bytes (313 words) - 19:05, 27 December 2021
  • and ammonia.  Potash is called the vegetable alkali, soda the mineral alkali and ammonia the volatile alkali.  Lime, magnesia, baryta and strontia are called...
    1 KB (194 words) - 16:26, 26 March 2007
  • characteristic emission spectra of the particular metals. In examining in this way the alkali-salt residue of a mineral water from Durkheim, Bunsen observed in...
    690 bytes (4,182 words) - 09:22, 7 August 2019
  • a monovalent metal); whilst bismuth, copper and magnesium appear only to form basic carbonates. The acid carbonates of the alkali metals can be prepared...
    383 bytes (811 words) - 10:00, 13 May 2016
  • Volume 4 — Caesium ​CAESIUM (symbol Cs, atomic weight 132.9), one of the alkali metals. Its name is derived from the Lat. caesius, sky-blue, from two bright...
    357 bytes (883 words) - 09:58, 13 May 2016
  • constitutes the minerals anhydrite, alabaster, gypsum, and selenite; the carbonate occurs dissolved in most natural waters and as the minerals chalk, marble...
    442 bytes (2,704 words) - 09:59, 13 May 2016
  • Gregor in 1789 who found in the mineral ilmenite or menachinite a new earth, which was regarded as the oxide of a new metal, menachin. Independently of him...
    307 bytes (1,957 words) - 22:30, 29 April 2017
  • discovered in 1886 by C. Winkler in argyrodite, a mineral found at Freiberg in Saxony. On examination of the metal and its salts it was shown to be identical...
    257 bytes (461 words) - 11:28, 15 January 2022
  • of metal, obtainable by elutriation. The process fails in the presence of too much alkali. Insoluble tungstates (e.g., the ordinary tungsten minerals) are...
    442 bytes (1,395 words) - 09:30, 11 July 2023
  • liquors from the former. It forms double salts with the chlorides of the alkali metals. The bromide MnBr2·4H2O, iodide, MnI2, and fluoride, MnF2, are known...
    267 bytes (2,614 words) - 22:08, 16 September 2017
  • in diameter, and other minerals such as apatite and tourmaline often occur in gigantic crystals. Pegmatites consist of minerals which are found also in...
    358 bytes (1,243 words) - 19:59, 4 June 2023
  • the sign of an alkali metal (potassium, sodium, rubidium, caesium), silver or ammonium, and M111 denotes one of the trivalent metals, aluminium, chromium...
    325 bytes (1,573 words) - 20:58, 25 March 2017
  • in the minerals wolfram, an iron and manganese tungstate, scheelite, a calcium tungstate, stolzite, a lead tungstate, and in some rarer minerals. Its presence...
    234 bytes (2,396 words) - 18:07, 28 August 2021
  • hydroxide of thallium, in most of its properties, comes very close to the alkali metals; it is strongly basic, forms an insoluble chloroplatinate, and an alum...
    299 bytes (1,847 words) - 13:17, 1 July 2019
  • anhydrous state 24·4% of the metal, which, however, in common clays is more or less replaced by calcium, magnesium, and the alkalis, the proportion of silica...
    340 bytes (7,848 words) - 20:23, 15 August 2020
  • It forms red crystalline double salts with the chlorides of the metals of the alkalis and of the magnesium group. An aqueous solution of ferric chloride...
    277 bytes (6,614 words) - 20:01, 16 August 2021
  • England and in Germany. Nahnsen’s process, with an electrolyte containing alkali-metal sulphate and zinc sulphate, has been used in Germany, and a process invented...
    284 bytes (6,204 words) - 07:02, 24 October 2018
  • composition BeSO4·7H2O are obtained. Double sulphates of beryllium and the alkali metals are known, e.g. BeSO4·K2SO4·3H2O as are also many basic sulphates. The...
    353 bytes (1,151 words) - 09:56, 13 May 2016
  • description of the metal. Ores and Minerals.—The principal source of bismuth is the native metal, which is occasionally met with as a mineral, usually in reticulated...
    317 bytes (2,869 words) - 09:57, 13 May 2016
  • except as a gray powder including hydrogen, oxygen, and a little of some alkali metal as impurities; but Prof. Roscoe has had the pleasure of seeing in my...
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