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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    considers, that though the different sorts of atoms have particular characters of differ- ence, they possess at the same time general marks of resemblance. Within the first bracket are comprehended such substances as are remarkably prone to fluidity, with- out becoming the bases of acids. The second contains the bases of acids which are known, in distinction to the unknown, and are not metallic, nor compounded. In the third are included the names for those atoms which are termed alkaline, and which have a remarkable proneness to unite with acids and to neutralize them. The denominations of the atoms called earthy, are contained in the fourth. The metals which are capable of being turned to acids are placed in the fifth. Metallic substances, convertible to oxyds and not to acids, are arranged in the sixth; and the seventh takes in the unknown radicals of all the remaining acids, many of which are presumed to be compounds, though, as they have not been hitherto analyzed, they are continued in the list of simples. Four names are placed within the first