Experiments with the ammonium amalgam

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Abstract
THE existence of the hypothetical radical NH4 depends less upon the characteristics of its so-called amalgam than upon the parallelism of its salts with those of the alkalies.If; from these analogies, we accept the metallic nature of ammonium, it will be difficult to avoid assigning a similar character to the radicals of all of the organic bases; and especially to those which, like the compound ammonias, have an alkaline reaction and possess physical and chemical properties so like ammonia.If such be the inference, we must admit numerous compound metals, which exists only in certain states of combination of their elements.The assumption of the elementary natnre of a metal is destroyed and the ideas of the alchemists are revived j for if NH4 be a metal and NH3 be not one, why may not other metals, esteemed elements, be also compounds.In examining the so•called ammonium amalgam one is interested at the great resemblance which it bears to the amalgams proper in its physical properties.The mercury has lost its fluidity or mobility, and, at the same time, its relations of cohesion and adhesion are very sensibly altered.It no longer coheres powerfully; but adheres to, or wets, platinum, iron and other metals, like the potassium or sodium amalgam.When left to
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Authors Charles M. Wetherill
Journal american journal of science
Year 1865
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10.2475/ajs.s2-40.119.160
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