Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II (New Series) December 1841

JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY Report to the Secretary of the Board of Customs Salt and Opium on the Salts called PUCKWAH and PHOOL-KHAREE ; with a process for detecting the adulteration of Government Salt ; estimates of the quatities of both Salts annually produced and of the amount of loss which the Revenue may sustain through the production of these two articles. [...] 5. Now our solution of Acetate of Barytes is made by dissolving 100 grains of the salt in 1000 grain; of pure water and the tube filled to the mark containing exactly as mucfi of the solution as is equal to 37.50 parts of Acetate of Barytes the whole of its contents will thus precipitate the 20 parts of dry Sulphate of Soda which the adulteration of 25 per cent. [...] It will be seen in the succeeding section that we may assume a considerable portion of Pitqkwali to be also produced in the manufacture of the Kharee and possibly some in the preparation of the Reher or Soda earths for the use of the washermen soap-boilers glass-makers &c. [...] Let the capillarity of the tube of the standard Barometer be +002 inches and that of the portable instrument +.037 inches then if at the time of the comparison for dstermining the neutral point of the latter instrument the mercurial column of the standard stood at 25.362 incites the corresponding height for the portable Barometer would be 25.362—(037.°002)..126.327 inches which would be the Z [...] The variations in height being inversely prciportional to the areas of the occupied portion of the tube and of the cistern ; or which is the same thing inversely as the squares of their dimeters since in Mr.