A system of chemistry, in four volumes (Volume 1).

  • Thomas Thomson
Date:
1818
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    PAGE] pAGE Chap. II.—Of Simple In- |5. Composition of silica, 217 combustibles, § I.—O/ Azote, 1. Component part of the atmosphere, 2. Weight, 3. absorbs wa- ter, 4. Absorption by water, ii. Combines with oxygen, 185 1. Forms nitrous acid, 185 2. Two oxides of azote, 186 3. Gaseous oxide, - 187 4. Nitrous and nitric acid, 188 183 7. Fluoslicic acid, 183% V.—OfPiiosphorus, 1. Properties, - 1842. A poison, ii. Union with oxygen, 1841. Burns when exposed 219 2-20 223 22+ 224 185 192 192 193 5. Hyponitrous acid, iii. Chloride of azote, iv. Iodide of azote, attempts to decom- pose azote, Chap. III. Of Simple Combustibles, i. Arrangement, Genus 1. Acidifiabk Combustibles, § I.—O/ Hydrogen, - 194 1. Its properties, 2. weight, 195 3. Action on combustibles, 4. on animals, 195 5. Not absorbable, - 195 ii. Combustible. Forms water with oxygen, 196 iii. With chlorine, muria- tic acid - - 197 iv. With iodine, hydrio- dic acid, - v. With fluorine, fluoric acid - - 198 vi. With azote, ammonia, 199 §11.—Of Carbon, - 200 method of preparing, 1. properties, - 200 3. Absorbs gases, - 201 4. Plumbago, - - 202 5. Diamond, ii. Combustion of carbon, carbonic acid, 4. Carbinic oxide, iii. Phosgene gas vi. Cyanogen, 1. Olefiant gas, - 2. Chloric ether, 4. Carbureted hydrogen, 209 5. Gas from vegetable bodies and pit coal, 210 6. Affinity of carbon for oxvgen, - § III— Of Moron, - 1. Preparation, 2. Properties, 3. Boracic acid, 4. Chloride, fi. Fluoboric acid 8. Borureted hydrogen, 10. Union with metals, § IV— Of Silicon, - 1. Silica, - 2. Decomposition of, 4. Properties of silicon, to the air, - 224 Soluble in oxygen gas, 224 Converted by combus- tion to an acid, 224 Phosphorous acid, 226 Hypophosphorous acid, 226 Oxide of phosphorus, 227 Union with chlorine, 228 Protochloride of phos, phorus, - 3. Perchloride of phos- phorus, - - 229 iv. Union with iodine, 230 1. Protiodide, 2. periodide, 230 jvi. Soluble in azote, 194 vii. Combines with hydro 204 20r 205 207 207 208 211 211 212 gen, - - 231 Hvdroguret, - 231 2. Bihydroguret, - 233 viii. Phosphuret of carbon, 234 §VI._Of Sulphur, - 235 1. Properties, - - 235 2. Action of heat, flow- ers of sulphur, 236 Capable of crystalliz- ing, - - 236 Combines with oxygen, 236 I. Converted by combus- tion into an acid, 237 Sulphurous acid, 237 3. Sulphuric acid, - 238 5. Sulphurs, - - 240 Lac sulphuris, - 241 iii. Chloride of sulphur, 241 Iodide of sulphur, 242 vi. Sulphuretsd hydrogen, 242 vii. Sulphuret of carbon, 244 ix. Combination of sulphur with phosphorus, 246 § Vl\.—Of Arsenic, 248 1. Properties, - - 249 ii. Oxides, - - 249 1 1. Protoxide, - - 249 2. Peroxide or arsenic acid, - - 250 ii. Chloride, - - 251 iv. Iodide, vi. Arsenureted hydrogen gas, - - 252 viii. Phosphuret, PAGE i. How obtained, proper- ties, - - 258 ii. Oxides, - . 259 Alloys, - - 259 general remarks, 259 1. Weight of the atoms, 260 2. Compounds with oxy- gen, - - 260 3. With chlorine, - 261 4. With iodine, 5. fluorine, 261 Genus II. Alhalifiable Combustibles, - 262 Properties of metals, 262 Family I. - - 264 § I.—Of Potassium, - 265 1. Making potash, - 265 2. Properties of potash, 267 3. Decomposition of pot- ash, - - 267 ii. Oxides of potassium, 268 1. Composition of potash, 268 2. Peroxide of potassium, 269 iii. Chloride of potassium, 269 iv. Iodide of potassium, 270 vi. Hydruret, - - 271 viii. Phosphuret, ix. sul- phuret, x. arseniu- ret, - - 272 § II.—0/ Sodium, - 273 formation of sodium, 274 Oxides, - - 274 Soda, - - - 274 Peroxide, - - 275 Chloride, - - 275 Iodide, - - 277 vi. Phosphuret, - 277 vii. Sulphuret, - - 278 viii. Arseniuret, - 278 ix. Alloy with potassium, 278 § in.—Calcium, - 279 1 and 2. Lime, - - 279 discovery of calcium, 279 213 214 214 24 5 215 21 fi 216 217 21 ii. Lime, - iii. Chloride, iv. Iodide, §IV.— Of Barium, barytes, decomposition,' 280 281 282 283 283 284 212 ix Sulphuret, realgar, or- piment, - §Y\U.—Of Tellurium, 1. Properties, - i. Oxide, ii. Chloride, .v. Iodide, vi. Tellureted hydrogen gas, §1X.—Of Osmium, - Composition of barvtes, 285 2. Peroxide, - '- 286 iii. Chloride, - - 280 iv. Iodide - - 288 § V.— Of Strontium, 288 ii. Composition of stron- tian, - - 290 iii. Chloride, - - 290 iv. Iodide, - - 291 v. Affinities, - - 292 253 § VI.— Of Magnesium, 292 25 i ii. Composition of mag- 255 nesia, - - 293 255 iii. Chloride, - - 293 256 iv. Iodide, - - 295 256FamiltH. - - 295 §1. Of Yttrium, - 295 256 preparation of y'tria, 29o 258 composition of, - 297