Tests for Lime
The alkaline carbonates, phosphates, oxalates, and sul- 1 phates, occasion white precipitates in solutions of lime. The precipitates occasioned by the first three tests are soluble in dilute nitric or muriatic acid; that by the last is insoluble in those menstrua, but soluble in solution of salt, and not reprecipitated by dilute sulphuric acid. ties of this alkaloid.