The principles of inorganic chemistry / by Wilhelm Ostwald ; tr.with the author's sanction by Alexander Findlay.

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1902
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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE General Principles ...... 1 Chemical Phenomena, 1. Experience, 2. Conceptions and Laws of Nature, 3. Time and Space, 4. Bodies and Substances, 5. Properties, 6. Homogeneous Substances and Mixtures, 8. The Exactness of the Law of Properties, 8. Pure Substances and Solutions, 9. How many Properties are necessary for the Characterisation of a Substance ? 10. * Induction, 11. The Characteristics of Substances, 12. Colour, 12. The Physical State, 13. Summary, 14. CHAPTER II The Laws of Conservation . . . . .16 Change of Weight in Chemical Processes, 16. Experiments, 16. Conserva- tion of Weight, 18. Some Mechanical Conceptions: Work, 19. The Law of Conservation of Work, 20. Kinetic Energy, 21. Mass, 22. Units, 22. Weight and Mass, 23. The Balance, 24. Density and Extensity, 27. Measurement of Density and Extensity, 28. Densities of Solid Bodies, 29. Influence of Pressure and Temperature on the Density, 30. The other Forms of Energy, 30. Summary, 32. CHAPTER III The Phenomena of Combustion and Oxygen . . .34 Combustion, 34. Is Increase of Weight on Combustion Universal? 35. Behaviour of the Air during Combustion, 36. Oxygen, 36. Properties of Oxygen, 38. Decomposition of Oxide of Mercury, 38. Combination, 39. Quantity Relations, 39. Deductive Derivation of the Law of Constant Proportions, 40. Summary, 41.