Notes for students in chemistry : being a syllabus of chemistry compiled mainly from the manuals of Fownes-Watts, Miller, Wurz, and Schorlemmer / by Albert James Bernays.

  • Albert Bernays
Date:
1878
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Credit: Notes for students in chemistry : being a syllabus of chemistry compiled mainly from the manuals of Fownes-Watts, Miller, Wurz, and Schorlemmer / by Albert James Bernays. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Alphabetical Table of the Elements, &c.^ont!nued. Plnnibinn Pb 207 Tellurium HViofliiiiii R _ 104. 3 Tballium Rubidiuni Rb _ 85. 4 Thorium Ruthenium Eu 104. 2 Titanium Selenium Se 79. 5 Tungsten Silicium Si 28 Uranium Stannum Sn 118 Vanadium Stibium Sb 122 Yttrium Strontium Sr 87 .6 Zincum Sulphur S 32 Zirconium Tantalum Ta 182 Te Tl Th Ti W u V Y Zn Zr = 129 = 203.6 = 231.5 = 50 = 184 = 120 = 51.3 = 92 = 65.2 = 89.5 1. Oxygen 2. Hydrogen 3. Nitrogen 4. Carbon 5. Chlorine 6. Bromine 7. Iodine 8. Fluorine A. The Non-Metallic Elements. 0 = 16 9. Sulphur H = 1 [10' Selenium N = 14 [11- Tellurium 0 = 12 12. Boron CI = 35.5 13. Silicon Br = 80 14. Phosphorus 1 = 127 15. Arsenicum As F = 19 s = 32 Se = 79.5] Te = 128] B = 11 Si = 28 P = 31 As = 75 Selenium and Tellurium, which are bracketed, are of no im- portance except to students of Chemistvy Hy-ii-ogeia is properiy speaking, a metal; but this division of the elements is onlj re- tained because of the requii-ements of certain Universities. I. Oxygen 0 = 16. 0, = 32. / A dyad element. Colorless, tasteless and inodorous gas: uninflammable. A gre^t supporter of combustion. Necessary r nspknton, decay, germination, and the commence.neut of pnt^^fKn. The mostma^netic of g.xses: the diai-nal vanat.ons of the needle referable to the effects ot heat upon it. />xygcn s i6 X heavier tlian its own volume of hydrogen. One litre weighs 43 grammes ; 11.19 litres weigh , 6 grammes (one gramme is eaiial to 15.4,2 grains and one litre to 1.76 pmts . Compared vSlry air it has a ix4,.tive weight or specific gravi y of i^^ one hundred cubic inches weigh 34--9 grants at i, . 5 C. aiid ^o'' bar. In water it is very little soluble; 100 vols, dissolve 1 99 vols, at rs° C, and 4.1 ■ vols, at 0° C. In the Ireejtato or native oxygen constitutes 21 per cent, by measur.., and 23 per SnI by wight of dry air. Combined mth Hy.irogen in Z form ot'Water Oil,, it forms I of the weight ot the latter.