Syllabus of a course of lectures on the principles of chemistry, commencing at the Museum, Oxford, in Oct. 1831.

  • Daubeny, Charles, 1795-1867.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Syllabus of a course of lectures on the principles of chemistry, commencing at the Museum, Oxford, in Oct. 1831. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Davy’s method of preserving the copper sheeting of ships from corrosion. Nickel—whence obtained—its colour, malleability, and ductility—found in all meteoric stones. Iron—its affinity for oxygen, and other properties—yet occurs in nature in a metallic form—Meteoric iron—This probably the form in which it was first used—Mode of re- ducing iron from its ores at present adopted—Combina- tions of iron with carbon and sulphur particularly noticed —Its alloys with various metals. Mercury—its ores—properties and uses—Chemical differ- ence between calomel and corrosive sublimate—Its combina- tions with sulphur—other salts and medicinal preparations. Silver—in what respect it differs from all the preceding metals—its strong affinity for chlorine—Test founded on this property—Combines readily with sulphur—Its salts and ores—Uses of this metal. Platinum—Mode of separating it from its ore—Proper- ties of the other metals with which it is alloyed—Properties of platinum—Its uses in the arts—Power which it possesses of inflaming hydrogen by promoting its union with oxygen gas. Gold, why considered the most perfect metal—its oxides —salts—and alloys—Its principal ores, and the methods of reducing them by expellation—Uses of gold in the arts. General remarks on the preceding metals—They agree in possessing malleability and ductility. The subjects comprehended under the heads of Animal and Vegetable Chemistry, as well as certain other parts omitted in the present Syllabus, will be noticed in a subse- quent Course of Lectures.
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