A systematic arrangement of minerals, founded on the joint consideration of their chemical, physical, and external characters reduced to the form of tables, and exhibiting the analysis of such species as have hitherto been made the subject of experiment / by William Babington.

  • William Babington
Date:
1795
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Credit: A systematic arrangement of minerals, founded on the joint consideration of their chemical, physical, and external characters reduced to the form of tables, and exhibiting the analysis of such species as have hitherto been made the subject of experiment / by William Babington. 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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    CLASS IV. INFLAMMABLES. ORDER. GENUS. SPECIES. VARIETY. ANALYSIS. 1. Aeriform. 1. Hydrogen, 1. Pure Hydro- gen. 2. Sulphurated Hydrogen. Hepatic Gas. ■ ■ 2. Liquid. 1. Bitumen. is - ]. Naptha. 2. Petroleum. 3. Barbadoes Tar. 3. Solid. I. Bitumen. 1. Afphaltum. 2. Jet. 3. Coal. 1. Compact. 2. Slaty. ‘X i 4. Mineral Elaflic Gum. 2, Amber. I. Honeyflone. f. Cryflallifed. a. In aluminiform oftohe- drons. / 2. Common Am- ber. 1. Amorphous. a. Tranfparent. b. Opaque. 3. Mineral Tal- low. 4. Sulphur. 1. Common Sul- phur. 1. Cryflallifed. a. In rhomboidal oftohedrons and their varieties. b. Indeterminate. 2. Amorphous. a. Compaft. 2. Volcanic Sul- phur. 1. Amorphous. . a. Granular. b. Compact. * 5. Plumbago. I. Common Plumbago. Graphite. J. Amorphous. a. Compact. b. Slaty. 2. Anthracolith. Carbon fjO, Argill 5. Iron 3. Silex 2. Bom. H