Elements of chemistry, in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. ... / Translated ... by Robert Kerr.

  • Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794
Date:
1790
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    INTRODUCTION, Page 291 CHAP. I-—Of the Inftruments necelTary for deter- mining the Abfolute and Specific Gravities of Solid and Liquid Bodies, 2^^ CHAP. II.-^Of Gazometry, or the Meafurement of the Weight and Volume of Aeriform Sub- ftances, 304 SECT. I—Of the Pneumato-chemical Apparatus, ibid. SECT. II.—Of the Gazometer, 308 SECT. III.—Some other methods for Meafuring the Volume of Gaffes, 319 SECT. IV Of the method of Separating the dif- ferent Gaffes from each other, 323 SECT. V.—Of theneceffary Corrections of the Vo- lume of Gaffes, according to the Preffure of the Atmofphere, * 328 SECT. VI.—Of the Correction relative to the De- grees of the Thermometer, 335 SECT. VII.—Example for Calculating the Correc- tions relative to the Variations of Preffure and Temperature, 337 SECT. VIII.—Method of determining the Weight of the difierent Gaffes, 340 CHAP. III.'—Defcriptlon of the Calorimeter, or Apparatus for meafuring Caloric, ' 343 CHAP. IV.—Of the Mechanical Operations for Divifion of Bodies, . 357 SECT. I.—Of Trituration, Levlgation, and Pulve- rization, ibid.