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Flowers of Antimony
Throw rup with a sulphuret of antimony, are apt to powdered sulphuret of antimony, by spoon- disengage sulphuretted hydrogen, when there fuls , into an ignited tubulated retort that has is much of them, if kept in a warm room. a short and very wide neck, until as many The rule should be to prepare as small a flowers collect in the receiver as are required. quantity as possible, and to keep the bottle cool. (Eymael.) The argentine flowers are thus prepared:
Keep metallic antimony melted in a vessel, freely exposed to the air, and furnished with Called also golden sulphuret of antimony.