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ALGAROTH, POWDER OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 598 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALGAROTH, See also:POWDER OF , a basic , chloride of See also:antimony, It was known to See also:Basil See also:Valentine, and was used medicinally by the Veronese physician See also:Victor Algarotus about the end of the 16th See also:century. Its See also:composition is probably Sb405C11, and it may be prepared by the addition of much See also:water to a See also:solution of antimony chloride; a bulky amorphous precipitate being formed, which, on See also:standing, gradually becomes crystalline. It is soluble in hydrochloric See also:acid and tartaric acid, but insoluble in See also:alcohol.- - On its composition and preparation see E. Peligot, Annalen, 1847, lxiv. 28o; L. Schaffer, Annalen, 1869, clii. 314; and R. W. E. l'Iaclvor, Chem. See also:News, 1875; xxxii. 229.

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