Explanation of the synopsis of chemical nomenclature and arrangement : containing several important alterations of the plan originally reported by the French Academicians / by Samuel L. Mitchill, M.D.

  • Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.
Date:
1801
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    of dry oxyd and acid. In this form bo- dies seldom or never exist (except metal- lic calces), on account of their very strong attraction for moisture. But this condition of dry oxyds and acids was necessary to be expressed for the sake of giving a better idea of their modifications by water in the two next columns. 6. Names and terms expressive of that condition of atoms when, after much re- pulsion by anticrouon or caloric, and at- traction by oxygen, the compound is ren- dered liquid by water. This applies to acids in their ordinary and fluid state, and to all solutions of bodies in water. 7. This title denotes the condition of certain atoms, which exist in the form of gas, combined with a portion of water, and sometimes with oxygen. In this are included all the acids and alkalies when rarified to the vaporific state, as well as all gases or aeriform fluids. 8. Atoms, after combination with oxy- gen into oxyds and acids, combined with other bodies; as happens to acids in their junction with earths, alkalies and metals,