The metal worker's handy-book of receipts and processes : being a collection of chemical formulas and practical manipulations for the working of all the metals and alloys including the decoration and beautifying of articles manufactured therefrom, as well as their preservation (1890)
Brannt, William T. (William Theodore), 1844- · Philadelphia : H. Carey Baird & Co. ; London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington · leaf 34
THE METAL WORKER'S IIANDY-BOOK. 38 therefore, by bringing zinc into hydrochloric acid, the chlorine leaves its associate, which escapes, while the chlorine forms with … the zinc a combination soluble in water — chloride of zinc. In dis¬ solving metallic oxides in hydrochloric acid no hydrogen is liber¬ ated, because the hydrogen separating from the acid instantly combines with the oxygen of the oxide to water. Thus, for in¬ stance, by bringing cupric oxide into…
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