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Excerpt from A Study of the Decomposition of Silicates by Barium Salts: Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Partial Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Among the numerous reagents for the decomposition of silicate rocks both barium carbonate and barium chloride have been used separately. According to J. Lawrence Smith The chlo rid of barium has been lately proposed; but its decomposing pr0p erties are very feeble, as the chlorine in combination With the baryum is not liberated at a white heat, and few silicates are able to produce the decomposition. It may succeed with some of the feldspars, but decomposes very imperfectly even the micas. So it is rather a risk to employ it With an unknown substance.
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