[Jewelry making - Article 00008] - [Orchid] Chemicals

[John Burgess]

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    G'day; Here some of the old and/or common names for well known
    chemicals. I posted this a long time ago, and thought you folk fairly
    new to Orchid might like a repeat. But please try and phase out the
    old names, like "muriatic acid". 


	Alabaster                      	Calcium sulphate
	Anhydrite                    	Anhydrous calcium sulphate
	Baking soda                  	Sodium bicarbonate
	Baryta                       	Barium oxide
	Bleach                       	Sodium hypochlorite
	Bleaching powder         	Calcium hypochlorite
	Blue vitriol                  	Copper sulphate
	Boracic acid                	Boric acid
	Borax                          	Sodium tetraborate	
	Brimstone                  	sulphur
	Calamine                      	Zinc carbonate
	Caliche                      	sodium nitrate
	Calomel                      	Mercuric chloride
	Caustic Potash            	Potassium hydroxide
	Caustic soda                  Sodium hydroxide
	Chile saltpeter             	Sodium Nitrate/  Sodium Nitrite
	Chloride of iron          		Ferric chloride
	Condy's crystals             	Potassium permanganate
	Copperas                      	Ferrous sulphate
	Cream of tartar           	Potassium hydrogen tartrate
	Drikold                        	Solid carbon dioxide
	Epsom salts                  	Magnesium sulphate
	Flowers of sulphur        	Sulphur in powder form.
	Fuller's earth                  Non plastic clay
	Glauber's salt                  Sodium sulphate
	Gypsum                        	Calcium Sulphate
	Horn silver                    	Silver chloride
	Hypo, photographic         	Sodium thiosulphate
	Ivory black                   	Carbon (from bones)
	Kaolin/ China clay           	Aluminium silicate,
	King's Yellow                	Arsenic trisulphide
	Lime sulphur                  	Calcium polysulphide
	Litharge                       	Lead trioxide
	Lithopone                      	Zinc sulphide and barium sulphate
	Liver of sulphur              	Potassium polysulphide
	Lunar caustic               	Silver nitrate
	Lye                            	Sodium hydroxide
	Magnesia                     	Basic magnesium carbonate
	Marsh gas                      methane
	Massicot                      	Lead monoxide
	Mohr's salt                   	Ferrous ammonium sulphate
	Muriatic acid                 	Hydrochloric acid
	Nitre                            	Potassium nitrate
	Orpiment                     	Arsenic trisulphide
	Oxymuriatic acid             	Chlorine gas
	Paris green                  	Copper arsenite
	Plaster of Paris             	Calcium sulphate
	Plumbago                    	Graphite
	Potash                         	Potasssium carbonate
	Purple of Cassius           	Colloidal gold
	Pyrites (iron)                 	Ferrous  sulphide
	Realgar                        	Arsenic disulphide
	Red lead / Minium           	Lead tetroxide
	Rochelle salt                 	Sodium potassium tartrate
	Sal ammoniac                	Ammonium chloride
	Sal volatile                    	Ammonium carbonate
	Saltpeter /Sal Petrier      	Potassium Nitrate
	Saltpeter, Norwegian      	Calcium nitrate
	Selenite                        	Calcium sulphate	
	Spirit of Nitre                 	Nitric acid
	Spirits of  salt                	Hydrochloric acid
	Sugar of lead                	Lead Acetate
	Table salt                     	Sodium chloride
	Tartar Emetic             	Potassium antimonyl tartrate
	Tripoli                           	Diatomaceous earth
	Verdegris                      	Copper Acetate /carbonate
	Vinegar                        	Acetic acid
	Vitriol                           	Sulphuric Acid concentrated
	Washing soda               	Sodium carbonate
	Water Glass                  	Sodium silicate solution
	White arsenic               	Arsenious oxide
	White Lead                   	Lead carbonate
	White vitriol                   	Zinc sulphate
	

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Cheers for now,
John Burgess;   johnb AT ts.co.nz of Mapua, Nelson NZ

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