quasi-acids

Updated: May 15, 2025

We have seen that with aluminium sulphate, basic salts are precipitated, i.e. salts with such a predominance of appetite for acids, or such quasi-acids as phenolic substances, that if such bodies were present they would combine with the basic parts of those precipitated salts as soon as the latter were formed, and all would be precipitated together as one complex compound.

Watson Smith - The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing: Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association