Note 225 — Chapter VI · CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM. THE LAW OF MASS ACTION

See Chapter VIII in regard to this proof that mercuric sulphide is less soluble than mercuric oxide and in regard to the question how, by a continuous disturbance of the equilibrium conditions, all the mercury may be precipitated from the cyanide solution as the sulphide, in spite of the very slight degree of ionization of the cyanide.