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To make muriate of tin
Take 8 ounces of muriatic acid, and dissolve in it, by slow degrees half an ounce of granulated tin; when this is done pour off the clear liquid into a bottle and weaken it, if required, with pure filtered river water. To determine the effect of various waters on different colours. Snow water contains a little muriate of lime, and some slight traces of nitrate of lime; rain water has the same salts in a larger quantity, and also carbonic acid; spring water most frequently contains carbonate of lime, muriate of lime, muriate of soda, or carbonate of soda. River water has the same substances, but in less abundance. Well water contains sulphate of lime or nitrate of pot-ash besides the above-named salts. Should the water contain a salt, or a mineral acid, in the first instance, an acid will be requisite to neutralize it, and in the second, an alkali. Thus waters of any quality may be saturated by their opposites, and rendered neutral.