Chemistry / by George Wilson.

  • George Wilson
Date:
1857
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Credit: Chemistry / by George Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    only in very small quantity in the globe, as constituents of rare minerals. 15. The sixty bodies referred to above, which cannot be analysed, will hereafter be spoken of throughout this work as the Chemical Elements, or elementary bodies. They bear the same relation to the various compound substances which be- long to the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, that the letters of the alphabet do to the works written in the lan- guage which they make up. Thus every English word is a compound of two or more letters, into which it can be gram- matically analysed. The twenty-six letters themselves, how- ever, admit of no analysis, but are the primary symbols out of which the language is constructed. Certain of these letters occur much more frequently in words than others; thus one or more vowels are found in nearly every part of speech, whilst the letter Z enters into the composition of very few terms. The chemical elements may thus be called the alphabet of chemistry as a science, and the different compound bodies correspond to the words which are made up of the alphabetical letters. Thus water is like a word of two letters, marble like one of three, alum of four, white of egg of six. We subjoin a list of the chemical elements, to which we shall return again:— TABLE OP ELEMENTARY SUBSTANCES. Aluminum Antimony (Stibium) Arsenic Barium Bismuth Boron Bromine Ky' Cadmium Calcium Carbon Cerium Chlorine 1/ Chromium Cobalt Copper (Cuprum) Didymium Erbium Fluorine / Glucinum Gold (Aurum) Hydrogen Ilmenium Iodine Iridium Iron (Ferrum) Lanthanum Lead (Plumbum) Lithium Magnesium Manganese Mercury (Hydrar- gyrum) Molybdenum Nickel Niobium y Nitrogen or Azote Norium Osmium Oxygen J Palladium Pelopium Phosphorus ' Platinum Potassium (Kalium) Rhodium Silicium or Silicon * Silver (Argentum) Sodium (Natrium) Strontium Sulphur Tantalum or Colum- bium Tellurium Terbium Thorium Tin (Stannum) Titanium Tungsten (Wolfram) Uranium Vanadium Yttrium Zinc Zirconium Ruthenium Selenium ' 16. Analysis, or the resolution of bodies into their simplest
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