plumbic

In this process we may substitute plumbic oxide for the cupric oxide, and succeed equally well.

Chemically it is converted by nitric acid and chlorine into an insoluble substance--plumbic acid or the cyanide of lead.

Plumbic acetate gives a purplish-red precipitate, mercuric cyanide a blue one, the supernatant liquid being also blue.

Plumbic sulphide is precipitated, and the liberated selenic acid separated by filtration is concentrated until it acquires a sp.

The plumbic seleniate is suspended in water and decomposed by means of a current of sulphuretted hydrogen.