Elements of chemistry, in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. Illustrated with thirteen copperplates / by Mr Lavoisier. ... Translated from the French, by Robert Kerr.

  • Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.
Date:
1790
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Credit: Elements of chemistry, in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. Illustrated with thirteen copperplates / by Mr Lavoisier. ... Translated from the French, by Robert Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    earthy, or metallic bafis, which determines the particular fpecies of fait. H^re we derived the name of each clafs of falts from the name of the acidifiable principle common to all the indivi- duals of that clafs; and diftinguifhed each fpe- cies by the name of the faline, earthy, or metal- lie bafis, which is peculiar to it. A fait, though compounded of the fame three principles, may, nevertheiefs, by the mere diffe- rence of their proportion, be in three different ftates. The nomenclature we have adopted would have been defective, had it not expreffed thefe different ftates; and this we attained chief- ly by changes of termination uniformly applied to the fame ftate of the different falts. In fhort, we have advanced fo far, that from the name alone may be inftantly found what the combuftible fubftance is which enters into any combination ; whether that combuftible fub- ilancp.be combined with the acidifying principle, what proportion ; what is the ftate of the ciciu s with what bafis it is united j whether the faturation be exad, or whether the acid or the bafts be in e^t. It