This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810. Excerpt: ... Ammonia, nitrate of, g3. Ammoniacal gas, 61. Amalgams, 32, 45. Analysis, what, 81.--1 of mineral waters, how performed, 78. Antimony, its properties, 47. sulphuret of, ibid. .. combustion of, pfi. Arsenic, properties of, 48. Aurum Musivum, how made, 40. B Acid, Nitric, lie.. Sulphuric,, 108. Muriatic, 113.--Fluoric, 116.----Phosphoiic, 118. 'Acetous, U5. i Carbonic, 115.. Prussic, 117.. how formed, 8. Acids, their properties, 105, 106.--tests for, 108. Acetite of lead, 43.--of copper, 38. Air, atmospheric, its composi-tion, 83.--fixed, or carbonic acid gas, 87.--'--inflammable, or hydrogen gas, 20, g7. Affinity, chemical, what, 69.... lawsof, 70,82.--tables of, use-ful, 81. Alkalies, how prepared, 60.--their properties, 62..--uses of, 63, 77.--tests for, 62.------proved to be metallic oxyds, 3, 65.--fixed, 61. Alkalie volatile, or ammonia, 61. Alumine, its properties, SO.---- sulphate of, ibid.. Analysis of water, how per-formed, 78. Ammonia, 81.----------carbonate of, or sal volatile, 65.. muriate of, or sal ammoniac, ibid. Balloon, air, 101. Barytes, its properties, 52. a test for sulphuric acid,. a metallic oxyd, 67. Bismuth, properties of, 46. magistery of, a cos-metic, 46. Bleaching liquid, 114. Blue, powder, what,-.9. Bodies, simple, 2.------compound, 1. Brass, of what composed, 34. Brimstone, see sulphur. Burnt bodies, what, 133. Candles, how rekindled, 84. Calomel, what, 82. Caloric, what, 3.----contained in ice, 4.. its important agency,6.------metals best conductorsi of, 4.----expands bodies, 5, 76. Caloric the cause of fluidity, 6. Copper, sulphate of, 33.-used to colour pickles,. how detected in water, 80. Copperas, or sulphate of iron, 37. Corrosive substances from mild, 75. Davy, Mr. his discoveries, 85. Decomposition of bodies, how effecte...
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