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**SULPHURET OF LIME** having lately been recommended by an eminent chemist as a substitute for potash, M. E. aff in the new method of bleaching, which, if it answer, may certainly be afforded at less expense, we shall here give the method of preparing the sulphuret.

Take of sulphur, or brimstone in fine powder, four pounds; lime, well flaked and sifted, twenty pounds; water, fifteen gallons—these are all to be well mixed and boiled for about half an hour in an iron vessel, stirring them briskly from time to time. Soon after the agitation of boiling is over, the solution of the sulphuret of lime clears, and may be drawn off free from the insoluble matter, which is considerable, and which rests upon the bottom of the boiler (A). The liquor in this state is pretty nearly of the colour of small beer, but sulphuret, not quite so transparent.

Sixteen gallons of fresh water are afterwards to be poured upon the insoluble dregs in the boiler, in order to separate the whole of the sulphuret from them. When this clears (being previously well agitated), it is also to be drawn off and mixed with the first liquor; to these again thirty-three gallons more of water may be added, which will reduce the liquor to a proper standard for steeping the cloth.

Here we have (an allowance being made for evaporation, and for the quantity retained in the dregs) sixty gallons of liquor from four pounds of brimstone.

Although sulphur by itself is not in any sensible degree soluble in water, and lime but very sparingly so, water dissolving but about one seven-hundredth part of its weight of lime; yet the sulphuret of lime is highly soluble.

When the above proportion of lime and sulphur is boiled with only twelve gallons of water, the sulphuret partly crystallizes upon cooling; and when once crystallized it is not easy of solution.