Researches into the laws of chemical affinity / by C.L. Berthollet ; Translated from the French by M. Farrell.

  • Berthollet, Claude-Louis, 1748-1822.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Researches into the laws of chemical affinity / by C.L. Berthollet ; Translated from the French by M. Farrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    solved by nitric acid, one part of the acid acts by its resulting affinity, whilst the other part aéts / * by its elementary affinities : so that the oxygen of this latter part is divided between the metal and azote, and the oxyde itself is dissolved by the undecomposed nitric acid. 15. It appears from what has been said on resulting affinity, that a false notion may be conceived of the properties of bodies, if the attention be confined, as it too often has been, to the mere consideration of their constituent parts, without adverting to other conditions of their constitution, or to the changes which some of their constituent parts may have un¬ dergone. The same portion of oxygen gas does not exert the same degree of adlion in the gaseous state, as it does when ill combi¬ nation with azote, hydrogen, carbon, sul¬ phur or a metal, in which cases it a6ls by a resulting affinity. Thus the oxygen of sulphuric acid differs in its aélion, and in its resulting affinity, from the