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Physical and chemical essays / translated from the original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman ... by Edmund Cullen ... To which are added notes and illustrations by the translator.

  • Bergman, Torbern, 1735-1784. Opuscula physica et chemica. English
Date:
1784-1791
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Credit: Physical and chemical essays / translated from the original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman ... by Edmund Cullen ... To which are added notes and illustrations by the translator. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    119. Fixed Air precipitates Bodies dijjhhed in purt Alkalis — — P^ge 56 20. The fimple elediive AttraSiiom of fixed Air 60 21. Its double elelih'e AttraSlions —- 68 22. Fixed Air is a true Acid — — 72 2^. Whether Acidity be ejfential to fixed Air 79 2 4. Specific Gravity of the Aerial Acid — 83 25. Aerial Acid extinguijhes Fire — — 87 26. Aerial Acid kills Animals — — 88 II. Of the Analysis of Waters, p.91. Neque vero negligentiorem fe circa aquarum facultates cOgnofi cendes exhibere con’venit, S^emadmodum enim gujlii differunt^ pondere ac fiatione,fic quoque virtute aliee altis longe pra- Jiant. Hippocrates. The firft feven feftions of this Diflertation were pub- licly defended by J. P. Scharenberg of Stockholm, on the 26th of June, 1778. § I. brief Hijiory of the Analyfts of Waters p.91 2. The Examination of Waters highly necef- fary — — — — 106 3. An accurate Analyfis of Waters is jujily con^ fidered as one of the mojl difficult Problems in Chemijiry — — — 109 4. What heterogeneous Matters are generally found in Waters — — 110 5. Water may be examined in two different WaySy by Precipitants^ or by Evaporation 116 6. The Phyfical ^alities to be cbjerved — 117 7. The principal Precipitants — — 12 i 8. Method of collediing the heterogeneous volatile Matters — — — 143 9. Method of colleliing the fiited heterogeneous Matter — — — 154 10. Examination of the Refiduum not foluble in Water — — — 159
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