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Acetate of Ammonia

Mix to- heat. Mixed with lime or caustic potassa, it gether equal parts of sal-ammoniac and ace-evolves the pungent odor of ammonia; it gives a white curdy precipitate with nitrate of 4229. Manganate of Baryta. The silver. The sal-ammoniac of commerce is manganate of baryta, and of other alkalies, generally sufficiently pure for all the purposes is formed by igniting the nitrate of the alkaof the arts, but when wanted of greater purity, lies with peroxide of manganese, with excess it may be broken into pieces and re-sublimed of air, and dissolving in water. (Booth.)

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