Volume 3

A manual of chemistry. Containing the principal facts of the science ; arranged in the order in which they are discussed and illustrated in the lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain / By William Thomas Brande.

  • Brande, William Thomas, 1788-1866.
Date:
1821
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Credit: A manual of chemistry. Containing the principal facts of the science ; arranged in the order in which they are discussed and illustrated in the lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain / By William Thomas Brande. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dissolves about a 7.5 part of its weight, and the solution is permanent. Caustic potassa decomposes it, and forms acetate of potassa. Oxalic, citric, tartaric, and benzoic acids have been employed in the formation of ethers ; the presence of a mineral acid is indispensable to their formation.— Ure's Dictionary, Art. Ether. \