A translation of the table of chemical nomenclature / proposed by De Guyton, formerly De Morveau, Lavoisier, Bertholet, and De Fourcroy ; with additions and alterations ; to which are prefixed an explanation of the terms, and some observations on the new system of chemistry.

  • Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau
Date:
1794
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Credit: A translation of the table of chemical nomenclature / proposed by De Guyton, formerly De Morveau, Lavoisier, Bertholet, and De Fourcroy ; with additions and alterations ; to which are prefixed an explanation of the terms, and some observations on the new system of chemistry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    ftood (as in the new fyftem of chemiftry) to mean a fubftance com- pofed of SULPHURIC ACID, and a BASIS which is a METAL- LIC OXYD, EARTH, or ALKALI; and if it be underftood that the term fignifying the particular bails is added to denote the par- ticular fpecies of SULFATE, then a juft notion of GLAUBER’S SALT will eaftly be conveyed and recolle&ed by the term SUL- FATE of SODA. I have likewife laid that as few and as fhort terms ihould be em- ployed as is confiftent with the notions to be conveyed. It is par- ticularly advantageous to obferve this rule in chemiftry, on account of the vaft number of fubftances whofe chemical properties are the objedis of this branch of natural knowledge. The practice of this rule may be very extenfive in chemiftry ; becaufe, among the great number of different fubftances to be known, one kind of compo- nent or undecompounded body frequently ferves to compofe a num- ber of thefe very different fubftances ; many different fpecies of things have one, or more, eminent property in common, and there are other, though more remote, analogies in the properties of dif- ferent kinds of fubftances. A ftngle example, taken from the New Syftem of Chemiftry, may explain clearly how much brevity and ftmplicity in terms, provided the terms have a proper import, faci- litate the acquifttion, retention, and communication of chemical knowledge. SULPHUR may be a component of a great number, at leaf! three hundred, different fpecies of fubftances; for, in th tfirji place, SULPHUR may unite with OXYGEN, by which combination it is rendered into the ACID STATE; but this ACID is of three diffe- rent fpecies, according to three different quantities of Oxygen which may combine with a given quantity of Sulphur, and thefe three fpecies are named the Sulphurous, the SulphUKtz, and the OXYGENATED SulphuRIC Acids. B 2