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 | | This is illustrated by the hexagonal pyrargyrite 3Ag1S~SbzS1, and proustite, 3AgISAs2S1, and the monoclinic pyrostilpnite, isomeric with pyrargyrite, and xanthoconite, isomeric with proustite. |
 | | This salt, insoluble in water but soluble in brine, also acts upon argentite (Ag2S+CuiCli=2AgCl+CuS+Cu) and pyrargyrite (2AgiSbSi+CuiCli 2AgC1 +Ag2S +2Ag+2CuS+Sb2Si), and would give with silver sulphide in the presence of quicksilver, the Patioreaction; metallic silver, cupric suiphide, and mercurous chloride (2Ag2S+CuiCli+2Hg =4Ag+2CuS+Hg2Cli), but the iron decomposes the quicksilver salt, setting free the quicksilver. |
 | | Thus Austin found that at the Charleston mills, Arizona, 92~ 13% of the total silver recovered was extracted after 1 hour, 94.10% after 2 hours, 95.92% after 3 hours, and 100% after 4 hours. |
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