CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE PRECIPITATION OF CARBONATES, BORATES, SILICATES AND ARSENATES
A study was made of the precipitation, at room temperature, of the carbonates of cadmium, cobalt, and nickel, of the chromate of beryllium, of the borates of zinc, of the silicates of copper and of the arsenates of lead. A rapid-mixing apparatus that insured that the precipitations took place in homogeneous liquid medium was used. In each series of experiments, the concentration of one reacting solution was kept constant and that of the other systematically varied. The values of the molar ratio of oxides, CdO/CO2 for example, in the precipitates were found by analysis. If they remained constant with different concentrations of reactants, a definite compound was indicated. The normal cadmium carbonate was obtained. Three definite basic compounds, not described in the literature, were prepared: a definite basic carbonate of cobalt, 5CoCO3∙Co(OH)2, and two definite basic arsenates of lead, 4Pb3(AsO4)2∙Pb(OH)2 and 9Pb3(AsO4)2∙Pb(OH)2. Dilead arsenate, PbHAsO4, was easily precipitated, but trilead arsenate, Pb3(AsO4)2, only under very specific conditions. The other precipitates were all mixtures. The influence of the hydrogen ion concentration of the solutions on the composition of the precipitates formed was determined.