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A new method of chemistry; including the history, theory and practice of the art / Translated from the original Latin of Dr. Boerhaave's Elementa chemiæ, as published by himself. To which are added notes; and an appendix, shewing the necessity and utility of enlarging the bounds of chemistry. By Peter Shaw.

  • Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.
Date:
1741
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Credit: A new method of chemistry; including the history, theory and practice of the art / Translated from the original Latin of Dr. Boerhaave's Elementa chemiæ, as published by himself. To which are added notes; and an appendix, shewing the necessity and utility of enlarging the bounds of chemistry. By Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Schol. II. The agreement betwixt alcohol and fire. 329 All other fewel leaves feces. 329,330 What alcohol would be without water. ,33° Pure pabulum of fire totally vanilhes in it. ib. Smoke, and allies, what. ib. Whence bodies prove lefs combuftible. ib. Fire greater, the lefs combuftible the fewel. 33°>33I And the more ponderous. 3 31 No fewel burns of itfelf, but by fire. 331 And this fucceflively in a certain order. 331, 332 Fire, why ftrongeft at a certain time. 332 Why weak in alcohol. ib. The effeft of incombuftible parts in fire. ib. A double matter in flame. ib. Fire, how heightened. ib. The caufe uniting fire to its fewel. 333 The phyfical manner of fire’s afting. 333, 334 Why fire burns ftrongeft in cold weather. 335 Fewel does not become fire. ib. Of fewels from Animal bodies. 335, . 336 Animal exhalations fometimes inflammable. 335 Of fewels from fossil bodies. 336 Exper. III. -Alcalifcd alcohol and water. 343,344 The caufe of the heat here generates, what. Exper. IV. Exper. V. ■ Exper. VI. -Wine and water. 344 345 -Water and vinegar. 343 -Oil of tartar and water. 343, 344 —Water and oil of turpen- 346 —Alcohol and oil of tur- ib. ~342 336 ib. Naphtha, like alcohol. Petroleum. Pitcoal. 337 Sulphur. ib. Fire rarifies all bodies. 338 This property peculiar to fire alone, ib. Fire every where prefent. 338 And yet equally. ib. Collefted by attrition. ib. Has an expanfive power. ib. Direfted by the fun. ib. Caufe of the rays converging to a focus. ib. Obtained by collifion of a fteel and flint. ib. Its matter not fupplied by the fun. ib. Fed. ib. By alcohol. ib. Whether void of gravity. 339»34° Elementary, may be exceflively encreafed. ' 34* How preferved. 341,342 Of producing heat by the mixture of Vegetable bodies. 342—349 Exper. I Heat from mixing water and fpirit of wine, 342,343 Exper. II. — ■ —Water and alcohol. 343 Exper. VII. — tine. Exper. VIH. - pen tine. Exper. IX. -Diftilled vinegar and oil of turpentine. 346,347 Exper. X. -Vinegar and alcohol. 347 Exper. XI. -Oil of tartar, and oil of turpentine. ib. Exper. XII. --Vinegar and oil of tartar. ib. Exper. XIII. -Alcohol and oil of tartar. ib. Exper. XIV. -Alcohol and fait of tartar. 348 Exper. XV. --Salt of tartar and water. ib. Exper. XVI. -The fame and vinegar, ib. Exper. XVII. -The fame and oil of tur¬ pentine. ib. Of producing heat by the mixture ofAnimal andVegetableSub¬ stances. 349,350 Exper. I. Upon urine in various manners. 349 Exper. II. On urrne again in different manners. ib. Exper. III. On fait of urine, in various man- ners. _ _ _ 349>35° Exper. IV. Spirit of fal-ammoniac with di¬ ftilled vinegar in different manners. 35a Of producing Heat by the mixture of Fossils. 350—353 Exper. I. Water, falts and fpirits, &c. indif¬ ferent manners. 350 Of producing true Fire in a cold BODY, BY THE SOLE ACCESS OF the Air. 353—356 The invention of phofphorus. 353 Animal, or Kunkei's phofphorus. ib. The caufe of its burning. 353»354 The black phofphorus. 354-355 How made. 355 And ufed. 355»35^ The caufe. 356 Of Fire produced from cold Fossils, BY MEANS OF WATER. 356,357 Fire produced in iron-filings and iulphur. 356 Whence. 356,35 7 Of the production of Fire by the MIXTURE OF COLD LIQUORS.357—372 b Fire \ /