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If a permanent precipitate is formed, redissolve with a few drops of acid.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

All these precipitates redissolve with an excess of acid, sulphuric acid excepted.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various

Allow this to nitrate through, until the sugar is white; dry the loaf, and redissolve it in boiling hot water, and evaporate it until it becomes dense enough to crystallise.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

The addition of hydrochloric acid in considerable quantity will, however, redissolve the precipitate.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William

We have only to evaporate a portion of the water to dryness, and redissolve the saline residue in distilled water.

From A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy by Accum, Friedrich Christian