Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

Home › Miscellaneous Chemicals › Sulphuret of Ammonium

Sulphuret of Ammonium

Usually called hydrosulphuret of ammonia.

This is prepared from strong liquor of ammonia, by saturating it with sulphuretted hydrogen gas, and then adding a second portion of liquor of ammonia, equal in strength and quantity to that first used. Keep it in wellstoppered bottles. (See No. 1203.)

Read next

← Bromide of AmmoniumSulphate of Lithia →