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Tests for Potassa

Potassa may be distinguished from the other fixed alkalies (soda and lithia), by affording, when in solution, a white crystalline precipitate (cream of tartar) with an excess of tartaric acid; and a yellow one with bichloride of platinum. The flame of burning alcohol containing potassa has a reddish tint; soda colors it yellow.