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# A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c22.s1: Æthiops Mineral

A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c22.s1

- **Language:** English

### Æthiops Mineral

### [v1.c22.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c22.s1.1)

(Kajjali or rasarpati p. 61)

### [v1.c22.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c22.s1.2)

As might be expected from its mode of preparation, the substance always contains a large excess of free sulphur.

### [v1.c22.s1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c22.s1.3)

0·645 gram subst; digested with carbon bisulphide, yielded 0·2845g. sulphur : whence free sulphur amounts to nearly 44 per cent.

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