Word: nitric
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...Nitrate Battery gives forth no fumes, and is perfectly clean, is more constant than the Bunsen, and of about the same strength. In the glass cell are used sulphuric acid and water, with zinc; and in the porous cup gas carbon and a saturated solution of ammonic nitrate in nitric acid. The important improvements made by Professor Gibbs in the way we have indicated will probably result in a very general substitution of the Ammonic Nitrate batteries in place of the inferior kinds...