A Dictionary of Chemistry, on the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's: In which the Principles of the Science are Investigated Anew, and Its Applications to the Phenomena of Nature, Medicine, Mineralogy, Agriculture, and Manufactures, Detailed, Volume 1 |
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... alkali , then potash and potassium , soda and sodium , lithia , and ammonia . Next , the general article earth ; afterwards calcium and lime , barium and barytes , strontia , magnesia , alumina , silica , glucina , zirconia , yttria ...
... alkali , then potash and potassium , soda and sodium , lithia , and ammonia . Next , the general article earth ; afterwards calcium and lime , barium and barytes , strontia , magnesia , alumina , silica , glucina , zirconia , yttria ...
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... alkali with acid ; but in every other respect it was different . After spending about two months on this project , and no answer being returned either to the public request of the bleachers , or to my own me- morial , I set off on an ...
... alkali with acid ; but in every other respect it was different . After spending about two months on this project , and no answer being returned either to the public request of the bleachers , or to my own me- morial , I set off on an ...
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... alkalies , he took the instrument at our desire , which , being filled with coloured acid , by pouring it slowly on adulterated alkali , which we had previously prepared , he ascertained exactly the per centage of genuine alkali in the ...
... alkalies , he took the instrument at our desire , which , being filled with coloured acid , by pouring it slowly on adulterated alkali , which we had previously prepared , he ascertained exactly the per centage of genuine alkali in the ...
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... alkalies was alone given ; in the edition published since , he has inserted four supple- mentary pages entitled ... alkali in any specimen , and that he pretended to nothing more than a modification of Dr. Ure's method " See Letter ...
... alkalies was alone given ; in the edition published since , he has inserted four supple- mentary pages entitled ... alkali in any specimen , and that he pretended to nothing more than a modification of Dr. Ure's method " See Letter ...
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... alkalis , properly so called , but also in mag- nesia . lime , strontian , and barytes , because ammonia appears to owe its alkalinity to hydrogen . " These considerations prove that oxy- gen may be regarded as the most usual principle ...
... alkalis , properly so called , but also in mag- nesia . lime , strontian , and barytes , because ammonia appears to owe its alkalinity to hydrogen . " These considerations prove that oxy- gen may be regarded as the most usual principle ...
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Page 11 - Monge has discovered that the pyroligneous acid obtained from the distillation of wood has the property of preventing the decomposition and putrefaction of animal substances. It is sufficient to plunge meat for a few moments into this acid, even slightly empyreumatic, to preserve it as long as you please.
Page 11 - The crude pyrolignous acid is rectified by a second distillation in a copper still, in the body of which about 20 gallons of viscid tarry matter are left from every 100. It has now become a transparent brown vinegar, having a considerable empyrcumatic smell, and a sp.