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Examples
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Pray, Mrs. B., let these old unmeaning names be entirely given up, by us at least; and let us call this salt _nitrat of potash_.
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It is procured from _nitrat of ammonia_, an artificial salt which yields this gas on the application of a gentle heat.
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-- This salt is decomposed when exposed to heat, and mixed with any combustible body, such as carbon, sulphur, or metals, these substances oxydating rapidly at the expense of the nitrat.
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If I remember right, the nitrat of copper was the first instance you gave us of a compound salt.
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But let us previously combine together the lime and nitric acid, so as to form a nitrat of lime, a compound salt, the constituents of which are united by a power equal to 4.
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First tell me, what are the constituent parts of nitrat of ammonia?
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This I can easily show you, by mixing some nitrat of potash and sulphuric acid in this retort, and heating it over a lamp; the nitric acid will come over in the form of vapour, which we shall collect in a glass bell.
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The first of these is _nitrat of potash_, commonly called _nitre_ or
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Would not oxy-muriat of potash make stronger gunpowder than nitrat of potash?
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Precisely; and those which we prepared by dissolving copper in nitric acid, _nitrat of copper_, and so on.
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