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Sulphate of Silver
Prepared or bluish-green powder, better known as verby dissolving silver in sulphuric acid contain- digris. This may be made by spreading the ing one-tenth of nitric acid; or by precipita- marc of grapes, or pieces of cloth dipped in ting a solution of the nitrate by another of crude acetic acid, upon plates of copper. sulphate of soda. It dissolves in 80 parts of with exposure to the air for several weeks. hot water, and falls in small needles as the solution cools. (Cooley). According to Fownes it dissolves in 88 parts boiling water.