The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge.

  • Ridge, J. J. (John James), 1847-1908
Date:
1879
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Credit: The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bit of Carbon, and this combination is written thus:— Carbon. Oxygen. Carbonic Acid. '~7T +'~2(T = co2 CO., {read thus, C 0 two) is called the formula* of Carbonic Acid.] The three elements, Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen, make up a great number of very different substances; they differ because some contain more Carbon, some more Hydrogen, and some more Oxygen. I will mention a few:— Fat, oil, cotton, paper, starch, sugar, honey, treacle, and alcohol or spirit of wine. All these substances will burn because they all contain Carbon for the Oxygen of the air to combine with. But while the Oxygen is combining with the Carbon to form Carbonic Acid, you may wonder what becomes of the Hydrogen. Other atoms of Oxygen in the air join with the Hydro- gen, and when these two elements combine together they form water.