Objections to the nomenclature of the celebrated Berzelius : with suggestions respecting a substitute, in a letter to Professor Silliman : first published in 1834, and republished in Silliman's Journal for 1835, Vol. XXVII / by Robert Hare ; also a letter from the distinguished Swedish chemist abovementioned, in reply, with a concluding examination of the suggestions in that letter, by the author of the objections, republished from the Journal of pharmacy for April, 1837.

  • Hare, Robert, 1781-1858.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Objections to the nomenclature of the celebrated Berzelius : with suggestions respecting a substitute, in a letter to Professor Silliman : first published in 1834, and republished in Silliman's Journal for 1835, Vol. XXVII / by Robert Hare ; also a letter from the distinguished Swedish chemist abovementioned, in reply, with a concluding examination of the suggestions in that letter, by the author of the objections, republished from the Journal of pharmacy for April, 1837. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (s) Names according to Brande and Turner. c Potassium. Platino bichloride of ... } Sodium. { Ammonium. (t) Berzelian Names. C Potassique. Chlorure platinico,- .... ) Sodique. ( Ammonique. («) Names according to Thomson, suggested by me before I was aware of their employment by this distinguished Author. C Potassium. Chloroplatinate of v - - - - 2 Sodium. ( Ammonium. (») The Compounds formed with the Protochloride, are by Berzelius designated as follows : i Potassique. Chlorure platinoso, .... J Sodique. { Ammonique. (mj) And are in the Compendium designated by me,— C Potassium. Chloroplatinite of .... J Sodium. ( Ammonium. (#) To make out the old name of any of the compounds of platinum, in which, according to the theory on which they are founded, a different hydracid may be one of the ingredients, substitute for muriate the name of the salt formed by the hydracid, whether it be a hydrobromate, hydriodate, hydrofluate, or hydrocyanate. (y) To effect a corresponding change in the names used by Brande, substitute for chloride, the name of the ha- loid compound in view, whether a bromide, iodide, fluoride, or cyanide. (z) In the Berzelian names, for chlorure, substitute bromure, iodure, fluorure, or cyanure, as the case may re- quire. (aa) By putting for the letters chloro, the corresponding letters bromo, iodo, flao, cyano* the Thomsoniant name of any of the halogene bodies with platinum may be formed. * It is only in the case of cyanogen that Thomson's names differ from mine as re- spects the haloid compounds. I use the term cyanide, agreeably to Henry: he uses cyanodide, and as respects the Berzelian double salts of cyanogen he adheres to the old names. t As it is convenient to have an epithet to distinguish the different sets of names, I have thought it expedient to distinguish by the name of Thomson those which he was the first to sanction.