Volume 5

Elements of natural history, and of chemistry / being the second edition of the ... lectures ... first published in 1782 ... translated into English with occasional notes, and an historical preface by the translator [W. Nicholson].

  • Fourcroy, Antoine-François de, comte, 1755-1809
Date:
1788-1789
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Credit: Elements of natural history, and of chemistry / being the second edition of the ... lectures ... first published in 1782 ... translated into English with occasional notes, and an historical preface by the translator [W. Nicholson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tin: (3) That the fuming liquor, diluted with vvater, diffolves tin without the difen- gagemcnt of hydrogenous gas, and aiiords a lalt fimilar to that which is obtained by the direct combination of the muriatic acid and « '' tin. He concludes, from his various experi- ments, that the fuming liquor is nothing elfe but a compound of the muriatic acid in the aeriform Hate, and the oxide, or calx of tin in which oxigene predominates ; and that this hilt is the fame, with refpefl; to the common muriate of tin, as the oxigenated muriate of mercury or corrofive fublimate is to the mu- riate of mercury or mercurius dalcis. f