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| | Discovery of Germanium |
 | | I realized only later that germanium really was present in the sodium sulphide solution but precipitated as the sulphide only after adding much acid, because it is considerably soluble in acid-free liquids and thus, once precipitated, could not be washed with water except with great losses or even complete disappearance (by dissolution). |
 | | Leaving the sulphur behind, germanium sulphide is dissolved, and when the solution is then strongly acidified by hydrochloric acid, a white, voluminous precipitate is obtained that cannot be mistaken for sulphur. |
 | | By adding the hydrochloric acid slowly in drops, first antimony sulphide, then arsenious sulphide are separated; after filtration, a solution is obtained from which snow-white germanium sulphide precipitates upon further, ample addition of hydrochloric acid. |
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