A syllabus of a course of chemical lectures read at Guy's Hospital / By William Babington and William Allen.

  • Babington, William, 1756-1833.
Date:
1802
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Credit: A syllabus of a course of chemical lectures read at Guy's Hospital / By William Babington and William Allen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF SALTS. Thefe characterized by being fapid or of a faline tajie and readilysfoluble in water; further remarkable for their difpofition to act on, or to be a&ed upon by mod other fubftances, as alfo for the regularity of the forms which they are in mod inftances found capable of affumin —Crystallifation. Their folution in water for the mod part accompanied by a diminution of temperature: hence the ufual means of producing artificial Cold. On expofure to air generally either receive or impart moifture : hence faid to be deli- quefcent or efflorefcent. When heated, the greater number undergo either watery or igneous Fufion—fome are vola- talized, and many more or lefs completely decompofed. They are divided into fimple and compounded —the more fimple are, Alkalies and Acids—the compounded, fuch as refult from the union of thefe with each other, Neutral Salts,—or of the acids with earths and metallic oxyds, Earthy ^and Metallic Salts. b OF