Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 / In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments

by Mrs. Marcet

It is very curious, indeed, that carbonic acid gas should render lime soluble in one instance, and insoluble in the other!

MRS. B.

I have here a bottle of Seltzer water, which, you know, is strongly impregnated with carbonic acid:—let us pour a little of it into a glass of lime-water. You see that it immediately forms a precipitation of carbonat of lime?

EMILY.

Yes, a white cloud appears.

MRS. B.

I shall now pour an additional quantity of the Seltzer water into the lime-water—

EMILY.

How singular! The cloud is re-dissolved, and the liquid is again transparent.

MRS. B.