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POWDER OF ALGAROTH

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 598 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POWDER OF ALGAROTH  , a basic , chloride of antimony, It was known to Basil Valentine, and was used medicinally by the Veronese physician Victor Algarotus about the end of the 16th century . Its composition is probably Sb405C11, and it may be prepared by the addition of much
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water to a solution of antimony chloride; a bulky amorphous precipitate being formed, which, on
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standing, gradually becomes crystalline . It is soluble in hydrochloric acid and tartaric acid, but insoluble in
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alcohol.- - On its composition and preparation see E . Peligot, Annalen, 1847, lxiv . 28o; L . Schaffer, Annalen, 1869, clii . 314; and R . W . E. l'Iaclvor, Chem .
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News, 1875; xxxii . 229 .

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