Papers on etherification and on the constitution of salts / by Alexander W. Williamson ... (1850-1856).

  • Alexander William Williamson
Date:
1902
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    sist in the formation of a body having the composition of aldehyde, which is the hydruret of ethyle, as acetone is its methyle-compound. The method here employed of stating the rational constitution of bodies by comparison with water, seems to me to be susceptible of great extension ; and I have no hesitation in saying that its introduction will be of service in simplifying our ideas, by estab- lishing a uniform standard of comparison by which bodies may be judged of. ON THE CONSTITUTION OF SALTS* CHEMISTS have of late years considerably ex- tended the meaning of the term salt ; acids and bases are now rather viewed as acid salts and basic salts respectively, than as compounds of fundament- ally different arrangement, and there seems reason to beheve that the molecular structure of the so-called simple bodies is analogous to that of salts. Thus any view which best explains the properties of salts may be expected to apply ultimately to the molecular structure of matter in general. It was remarked that a serious error had crept into chemical science by the introduction of a different unit of comparison in organic chemistry to that which is employed in the inorganic department of the science. * [From Report of the Twenty-first Meeting of the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, 1851, part 2, p. 54.]