See also:

• POWDER (through O. Fr. puldre, modern poudre, from Lat. pulvis, pulveris, dust)

POWDER OF See also:

• POWDER OF ALGAROTH

ALGAROTH  , a basic , chloride of See also:

• ANTIMONY (symbol Sb, atomic weight 120.2)

antimony, It was known to See also:

• BASIL (Russ. VASILY)

Basil See also:

• VALENTINE, or VALENTINUS

Valentine, and was used medicinally by the Veronese physician See also:

• VICTOR
• VICTOR, GAIUS JULIUS (4th cent. A.D.)
• VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

Victor Algarotus about the end of the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Its See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition is probably Sb405C11, and it may be prepared by the addition of much See also:

• WATER

water to a See also:

• SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution of antimony chloride; a bulky amorphous precipitate being formed, which, on See also:

• STANDING

standing, gradually becomes crystalline . It is soluble in hydrochloric See also:

• ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour)

acid and tartaric acid, but insoluble in See also:

• ALCOHOL

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 . See also:

• NEWS

News, 1875; xxxii . 229 .