A Manual of elementary chemistry

Voorkant
Blanchard and Lea, 1866 - 564 pagina's
 

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Pagina 106 - Indian-ink, porcelain, asbestos, fluorspar, minium, ciuoabar, binoxide of lead, sulphate of zinc, tourmaline, graphite, and charcoal. In the second class are placed bismuth, antimony, zinc, tin, cadmium, sodium, mercury, lead, silver, copper, gold, arsenic, uranium, rhodium, iridium, tungsten, phosphorus, iodine, sulphur, chlorine, hydrogen, and many of their compounds. Also, glass free from iron, water, alcohol, ether, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, resin, wax, olive oil, oil of turpentine, caoutchouc,...
Pagina 40 - It is better on this account in graduating the bottle, to make two scratches, as represented in the drawing, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the curve ; this prevents any future mistake.
Pagina 45 - ... on dividing the weight of the liquid by the weight of the water, the quotient will he the specific gravity of the liquid experimented on.
Pagina 329 - The residue is treated with alcohol of specific gravity 0'837, which dissolves everything except the double chloride of rhodium and sodium. This is Well washed with spirit, dried, heated to whiteness, and then boiled with water ; chloride of sodium is dissolved out, and metallic rhodium remains.
Pagina 45 - This result gives the weight of a bulk of water equal to that of the specimen, and by dividing the weight of the specimen in air by this number, the specific gravity is obtained.
Pagina 192 - They are four in number, and to the following effect: 1. All chemical compounds are definite in their nature, the ratio of the elements being constant. 2. When any body is capable of uniting with a second in several proportions, these proportions bear a simple relation to each other. 3. If a body. A, unite with other bodies, B, C, D, the quantities of...

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