converted into oxygenated muriatic acid, which gave it the property of
dissolving gold; but several facts remain inexplicable upon this
supposition. Were it so, we must be able to disengage nitrous gas by
heating this acid, which however does not sensibly happen. From these
considerations, I am led to adopt the opinion of Mr Berthollet, and to
consider nitro-muriatic acid as a single acid, with a compound base or
radical.
TABLE _of the Combinations of Fluoric Acid, with the Salifiable Bases,
in the Order of Affinity._
_Names of the Bases._ _Names of the Neutral Salts._
Lime Fluat of lime.
Barytes barytes.
Magnesia magnesia.
Potash potash.
Soda soda.
Ammoniac ammoniac.
Oxyd of
zinc zinc.
manganese manganese.
iron iron.
lead lead.
tin tin.
cobalt cobalt.
copper copper.
nickel nickel.
arsenic arsenic.
bismuth bismuth.
mercury mercury.
silver silver.
gold gold.
platina platina.
And by the dry way,
Argill Fluat of argill.
_Note._--These combinations were entirely unknown to the old chemists,
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