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  | | | | | | | | | APPROXIMATE | | SYMBOL | ATOMIC | DENSITY | MELTING | OXIDES | | WEIGHT | | POINT | ________|________|________|_________|_____________|_


id: 54210
type: CARDINAL
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  between 30 and 2,140 millimetres (of mercury), and he found that the composition of the residue hardly varies, and contains from


id: 51326
type: PRODUCT
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  | | Grams | Grams | | 100 | 28·0 | 65·7 | | 500 | 69·2 | 78·2 | | 1,000 | 112·6 | 85·6 | | 1,500 | 165·6 | -- | +


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type: ORG
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  Vitriolic Acid Phlogiston Fixed Alkali Volatile Alkali Absorbent Earths Iron Copper Silver V. Absorbent Earths Vitriolic Acid Nitrous Acid Marine Acid VI


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id: 14474
title: The Chemical History of a Candle
author: Faraday, Michael
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  BRIGHTNESS OF THE FLAME--AIR NECESSARY FOR COMBUSTION--PRODUCTION OF WATER gradual supply of air to that place of action--heat and light--all this piece of lime in the flame of the hydrogen as it burns in the oxygen, candle, and shew you a substance like zinc burning in the flame, you will and find that if they burn with a flame, as a candle, they produce water. substance equally from water produced from the candle-flame as from any Inasmuch as the candle produces water, and this gas comes out of the candle burn to produce water without it? than what is produced by the burning of the candle in air. air as the candle would burn in--and here is a jar or bottle containing It is water produced from the candle by the action of the air with air; and if I put a little lime-water into it, neither the oxygen nor


id: 20848
title: An Elementary Study of Chemistry
author: Henderson, William Edwards
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  prepared from compounds known as acids, all of which contain hydrogen. the oxygen present in the copper oxide to form water, which is absorbed hydrogen and oxygen combine in two different ratios to form water and Similarly, the element iron combines with oxygen to form two oxides, one sulphuric acid two compounds are formed, namely, hydrogen dioxide acid to water in the preparation of oxygen and hydrogen by electrolysis the oxides of most metals, forming a salt and water. DEFINITION: _Any oxide which will combine with water to form an acid, or acid, called sulphides, form an important class of salts. of hydrogen to form acids, which are gases very soluble in water. oxygen and hydrogen to form four different acids. a base is present in the water, salts of carbonic acid are formed, and carbon unites with nitrogen and hydrogen to form the acid HCN, called


id: 22914
author: Boyle, Robert
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  knowing Chymists shall Think fit in a civil and rational way to shew Peripatetick Elements, or the III Chymical Principles of Mixt Bodies._ number of Principles of mixt Bodies, to that grand and known Argument Body, nor scarce of any Animal, generated of Water, a French Chymist, reckon it among Salts, a De-compounded Body Consisting (as I shall mixt Bodie, yields but a little Inflamable Spirit, or Sulphur, and not Chymists Averr the Substances Obtain''d from Compound Bodies by the other Mineral bodies into Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury. how many new sorts of mixt Bodies Chymists themselves have produc''d by as for the Chymists calling a body Salt, or Sulphur, or Mercury, upon the Chymists Mercury or Spirit; and yet how many Bodies, think you, Substances which Chymists are wont to obtain from Mixt Bodies, by their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, to constitute mixt Bodies, without their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, to constitute mixt Bodies, without

title:
  The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist''s Principles Commonly call''d Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos''d and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis''d Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.


id: 29734
title: Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
author: Priestley, Joseph
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  In experiments on those kinds of air which are readily imbibed by water, In order to impregnate fluids with any kind of air, as water with fixed Fixed air may be kept in vessels standing in water for a long Water thus impregnated with fixed air readily dissolves iron, as Mr. Lane has discovered; so that if a quantity of iron filings be put to it, observed, that water which remained a long time within this air has If a quantity of inflammable air be contained in a glass vessel standing letting the phial stand some days in water, that the fixed air might be standing a long time in water, about as much as inflammable air is quantities of different kinds of air in jars standing in boiled water. To a quantity of common air, thus diminished by agitation in water, till I agitated in water a quantity of nitrous air phlogisticated with iron


id: 31624
title: A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis
author: Watson, Glen W.
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  [Illustration: Radioactive elements: alpha particles from a speck of A BRIEF HISTORY OF ELEMENT DISCOVERY, SYNTHESIS, AND ANALYSIS scientists working under the Atomic Energy Commission at the University evident that the atoms of radioactive elements were constantly changing accelerate a wider variety of nuclear particles to high energies. new elements, isotopes, and particles now seems endless. Element 43 was "made" for the first time as a result of bombarding The California scientists called the newly discovered element neptunium, bombardment in the Berkeley 60-inch cyclotron by Radiation Laboratory bombarded with alpha particles (positively charged helium nuclei) reacts to give off a neutron and a new element, curium, that has atomic number the isolation and identification of the atoms of element 96 was done at "one atom at a time"; this is possible because its daughter element, Positively charged atoms of element 102 are ions released [alpha] particles which had an energy of 8.6 MeV and


id: 30775
title: Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries
author: Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
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  Combustible substances, which in acids and metallic oxyds are a specific small proportions with water, whilst a higher oxygenation forms an acid atmospheric air, or in oxygen gas, they are not converted into acids after combining with charcoal to form carbonic acid gas, being added, of oxygen, when combined with nitrous gas in the nitric acid 58.72164; charcoal at this degree of heat, combines with it to form carbonic acid, attracts the oxygen, on purpose to form carbonic acid, the caloric form carbonic acid, a large quantity of hydrogen gas is set free, and water combined with the oxygenated muriatic acid than is necessary to quantity of oxygen gas absorbed, and of carbonic acid produced, as water course, after their combustion in common air, water, carbonic acid gas, forms carbonic acid gas and water, by oxygenating its elements. the quantity of water formed during the experiment; the carbonic acid


id: 14218
title: The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
author: Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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  object of Nature in all things is to introduce into each substance the The alchemical notion of a natural state as proper to each substance Price_ says, "Nature is continually at work changing other metals into If we think of the alchemical elements earth, air, fire, and water, as _Water_, in the cold substances the element _Air_ preponderates, and properties of substances, made since the time of the alchemists, have fixed substance, which brings all metals to the perfection of gold or that word: the alchemist regarded the metals as composite substances; experiments on the calcination of metals and other substances, But the terms _substance_, _thing_, _properties_ were used separate the calcined substance into two different things, one of help of it, what kind of air a great variety of substances, natural to cause a metallic calx (that is, the substance formed by calcining the way nature works, she _must_ begin with certain substances which


id: 4524
title: Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and Its Relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture
author: Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von
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  compound bodies produced with equal weights of two elements! constant supply of certain matters, animal food, and of oxygen, in hydrogen of certain parts of the animal body combine with the oxygen carbonic acid and water, 64.102 grains of oxygen are required. the elements of the food, is the source of animal heat. In the animal body, heat is produced only in those parts to which necessity for food containing carbon and hydrogen increases in the only class of animals whose food contains fat, inspire more oxygen these, the blood contains certain fatty bodies in small quantity, Vegetables produce in their organism the blood of all animals, for decaying organic matter present in the soil supplying carbonic acid, In whatever form the nitrogen supplied to plants may be contained in animals, from vegetable substances used as food; they had been to become food for man and animals can be formed in any plant


id: 37682
title: Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry
author: Priestley, Joseph
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  Neither water nor acid of vitriol will separately dissolve iron, so as phlogiston with nitrous air, as by heating iron in it, and by a mixture vitriolic acid, which uniting with the phlogiston in the air, forms the so that water impregnated with vitriolic acid air, commonly called Fluor acid air is procured by dissolving the earthy substance called Alkaline air is produced by means of heat from caustic volatile alkali, with marine acid air, the common sal-ammoniac; and with water, the The nitrous acid is formed by the union of the purest inflammable air, The nitrous acid unites with phlogiston, alkalis, metallic substances, Nitrous acid dissolves all metallic substances except gold and platina, vitriolic acid it forms a substance that is insoluble in water, and acid will deprive the nitrous of it, and form a substance called _luna By heat this substance parts with its pure air, and becomes


id: 37283
author: Anonymous
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  undermentioned places: for the Fulminating Silver, and Brugnatelli''s Fulminating Silver to be enclosed in the part marked S; a piece of of Brugnatelli''s Fulminating Silver: a piece of paper is then to be quantity of Brugnatelli''s Fulminating Silver is from one grain to one a grain of Fulminating Silver between the leaves, the end is then to be Take one third of a grain of Brugnatelli''s Fulminating Silver, and a grain of the Fulminating Silver is then to be placed between the Are thus prepared: Enclose half a grain of Brugnatelli''s Fulminating Silver in a piece of glass paper, and that should be again enclosed in One fourth of a grain of Fulminating Silver is to be inclosed in a Fulminating Silver in a fold of glass paper, and pasting it in the prepared in the same manner as directed for the Fulminating Cards. Fulminating Silver in a small fold of glass paper, and putting it into

title:
  The Whole Secret Laid Open, Or the Complete Art of Making the Chemical Fulminating Objects, Such as the Lace, or Girt of Security, Fulminating Letters, Balls, Bombs, Garters, Cards, Spiders, Segars, Chairs, Drawers, Boots, Shoes, &c. &c.


id: 38246
title: Heroes of Science: Chemists
author: Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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  Berzelius--Davy''s work on acids, alkalis, and salts--He Water was regarded as a substance which, like air, readily combined with ESTABLISHMENT OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE--PERIOD OF DALTON. ESTABLISHMENT OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE--PERIOD OF DALTON. that when elements combine the atom of the compound so produced is built up method for determining the atomic weights of compounds of that element. small particles, the molecule (of a compound or of an element) and the atom water gas there are two atoms of hydrogen combined with sixteen parts by nature of the elements in the acid atoms, or even in the arrangement of the Davy''s view of an acid as a compound of water with a negative oxide was place of three atoms of hydrogen in the molecule; that the new substance At the time when Dalton was thinking out his theory of atoms, Davy was


id: 51326
title: The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I
author: Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich
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  carbonic acid, whilst river water contains a considerable quantity explained from the fact that water which contains carbonic acid acids, salts, and such like substances whose solutions do conduct cases (for example, in the solution of nitric or formic acid in water) other acids form _solutions having definite boiling points_, like that [5] As water is formed by the combination of oxygen and hydrogen, with The oxide formed acts on sulphuric acid, water then organic substances are decomposed at a red heat, forming hydrogen, among with hydrogen, forming water, 69,000 units of heat are evolved; whilst when heated with sulphuric acid, forms oxygen and barium oxide, which _Many substances decompose hydrogen peroxide_, forming water and oxygen, water containing the nitrogen and oxygen of the air in solution, Chapter XX.) Water destroys this compound, forming sulphuric acid under the action of water (containing carbonic acid) and air, give


id: 46998
title: Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed.
author: Macquer, Pierre Joseph
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  Neutral salts have not so great an affinity with water as either Acids Water made boiling hot dissolves a greater quantity of those salts If the Vitriolic Acid contain much water, it is then called _Spirit of Silver thus combined with the nitrous acid forms a metallic salt which Copper dissolved in the vitriolic acid forms a kind of metalline salt, The neutral salts formed by combining the acids of nitre and of vitriol case with many other vegetables that contain an essential Oil. Succulent and green plants yield by compression a great deal of liquor phlegm, essential oils, fragrant waters, acid oily spirits, volatile several substances, all of which contain the Acid of Sea-salt, he mixed Vitriol, it must be distilled a second time from Sea-salt, as the Acid of the metal, by the Fixed Alkali uniting with the Acid of Sea-salt _Spirit of Wine combined with the Acid of Sea-salt.


id: 54210
title: The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II
author: Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich
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  such acid compounds as are formed by chlorine, oxygen, and similar excess of water, especially when heated, forms the basic salt (as Silicic acid is formed by taking any solution containing silica formed on mixing sulphuric acid or its soluble salts with presence of an acid at the ordinary temperature, lead forms compounds of compounds in the form of the salts of phosphoric acid. water, forming a yellow solution with a slightly acid reaction.[50] and forms the lower oxides; V_{2}O_{4} (acid solutions of a green sulphuretted hydrogen on a salt of a metal, a free acid must be formed forms in solution only an acid salt with the potassium: KHO + sulphurous acid easily forms double salts. salt from the green solution which contains less sulphuric acid salt-forming oxide, UO_{3}, shows very feeble acid properties. salt is not only formed by the action of iron on sulphuric acid,


