On the microcosmic salt, acids, bases, and water, and a new ... method of analysing sugar / [John Dalton].

  • Dalton, John, 1766-1844
Date:
1840-1842
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Credit: On the microcosmic salt, acids, bases, and water, and a new ... method of analysing sugar / [John Dalton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sugar, but 100 grains I mostly used. I generally used 100 grains for the 'prime experiment. 100 Sugar grains, dissolved in 572 Water grains gave 672 grains by weight. In specific gravity Bottle 606 grains In narrow tube. 66 grains 672 grains by weight. The specific gravity bottle did not vary more than 606 or 607, or 1 grain at most. It was long known that Sugar was disposed to resolve itself Solid and Liquid. The solid part is charcoal, and the liquid part is water. Gay-Lussac and Thenard had set that matter at rest. i I had the Memoir of Gay-Lussac and Thenard by me, and did not know, two days ago, that I had it. I was curious to look at it, and to my surprise it was, 42.47 charcoal. and 57.53 water. 100