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Derivatives of Hydroxylamine by Agnes Elizabeth Otto, 1892

Derivatives of Hydroxylamine by Agnes Elizabeth Otto, 1892, Page 4

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distillate contains ammonia and undecomposed hydroxylamine. It is a powerful reducing agent and precipitates silver, gold and mercury from solutions and throws down cuprous oxide from a hot solution of curpric sulphate. Perhaps it shall be useful as an alkaline developer in photography if it can be prepared cheaply enough. Cork and cellulose are strongly attacked by it, and bromine and iodine act with it quite violently. Hydroxylamine behaves very similarly to ammonia, -- and it is supposed that it is ammonia in which one part of hydrogen is replac-
 
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