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Nitrate of Cobalt
This may be hypochlorite and oxymuriate of lime, bleaching obtained by dissolving metallic cobalt in powder, and chlorinated lime-is seldom, if nitric acid, and collecting the crystals. These ever, made on the small scale, as it can be crystals are ready soluble in water; of a red purchasel of the large manufacturer of better color; deliquescent, and melt below 2120 quality and cheaper than it could possibly be Fahr. At a higher heat, nitrous fumes are made by the druggist. On the large scale the given off, and peroxide of cobalt remains.