A chemical catechism: in which the elements of chemistry, with the recent discoveries ... are fully explained. Containing an appendix of select experiments / By Thomas John Graham.

  • Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876.
Date:
1829
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Credit: A chemical catechism: in which the elements of chemistry, with the recent discoveries ... are fully explained. Containing an appendix of select experiments / By Thomas John Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Page, Preface «= Plate CHAPTER I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY Solids, Liquids, and Gases • Nature of Vapour Total number of bodies subject to measurement and weight, namely 52 * Specific gravity 1 2 4 5 6 CHAPTER II. ATTRACTION, or AFFINITY.... 10 Cohesive attraction ............ 11 Chemical attraction ....... * * 12 Elective attraction 14 Phenomena usually accompanying chemical affinity.. 18 Circumstances modifying its operation 19 Laws of chemical attraction 21- Law of definite proportions 24 CHAPTER III. ATOMIC THEORY 27 A table of atomic weights 86 CHAPTER IV. CALORIC, or HEAT 40 Sources of caloric 41 Direct communication and radiation of caloric 43 Power possessed by different substances of conducting caloric .. 44 Theory of clothing 45 Radiation of caloric . 49 Nature and cause of Dew 53 Absorption of caloric 55 Reflection of caloric 56 Effects of caloric on bodies 58 Expansion—remarkable case 59 Expansion of frozen water Cl Thermometer and pyrometer. 64 Table shewing the corresponding ylegrees of different thermometers 67 Higher degrees of heat 69