Elements of agriculture and vegetation / By George Fordyce, M. D. Fellow Of The Royal College Of Physicians; Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; and Reader on the Practice of Physic, in London. To which is added an appendix for the use of practical farmers.
- George Fordyce
- Date:
- 1789
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Elements of agriculture and vegetation / By George Fordyce, M. D. Fellow Of The Royal College Of Physicians; Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; and Reader on the Practice of Physic, in London. To which is added an appendix for the use of practical farmers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 2° ] PART'II. The Properties of Bodies neceflary to be known in AGRICULTURE. I. Of S J L T S. SALTS are Subftances which will diflolve in Water, and will not burn; Tartar and its Compounds are Exceptions, as they will burn although they be Salts. Volatile Alkali and its Compounds are Ex- ceptions, in as far as they deflagrate with Nitre. Quick Lime is an Exception, which although foluble in Water is not called a Salt but an Earth. Salts are, Firft, Simple or Elementary, fuch as can- not be divided into more Ample Subftances. Secondly, Compound, luch as confift of other Subftances more Ample. elementary](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2840581x_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
