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| | Gay-Lussac and Thenard |
 | | Even plumbago changed the latter gas into ordinary muriatic gas, that is to say, muriatic acid containing water; and since the most strongly ignited charcoal produces the same change, we must conclude that it is the hydrogen gas contained in these bodies which is the true cause of the change. |
 | | Only nitrous gas when mixed with oxygenated muriatic gas slightly altered its colour, changing it to a slightly orange green; but this we doubt not should be attributed to a little water or oxygen, as we had remarked that the drier and purer these two gases were, the less marked was the change of colour. |
 | | Vitreous boracic acid does not decompose either fused muriate of silver, or that of baryta, or that of soda, whilst, if vapour of water is made to pass, at a red heat, over a mixture of one of these salts and boracic acid, muriatic gas is disengaged very abundantly and borates are formed. |
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