Produced by Louise Hope [Transcriber’s Note: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. This e-text comes in three different forms: unicode (UTF-8), Latin-1 and ascii-7. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --If “œ” displays as a single character, and apostrophes and quotation marks are “curly” or angled, you have the utf-8 version (best). If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding”. If that doesn’t work, proceed to: --In the Latin-1 version, “œ” is two letters, but the word “aëriform” is usually written with dieresis (dots) over the “e”, and “æ” is a single letter. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight (“typewriter” form). Again, if you see any garbage in this paragraph and can’t get it to display properly, use: --The ASCII-7 or rock-bottom version. All necessary text will still be there; it just won’t be as pretty. The full caption of each Plate is given after its first mention in the text--generally a few pages before the Plate’s physical appearance, as specified in the caption. Many terms used in this book are different from today’s standard terminology. Note in particular: oxy-muriatic acid = the element chlorine phosphat of lime = calcium diphosphate _or_ the element calcium glucium = the element beryllium muriatic acid = hydrochloric acid muriat of lime = calcium chloride oxymuriate of potash = potassium chlorate carbonic acid = carbon dioxide Further details and more examples are at the end of the e-text. Each Volume had its own table of contents. They have been merged for this e-text, but the Vol. II title page was retained. Some Conversations were renumbered between the 4th and 5th edition, resulting in the apparent disappearance of Conversations XI and XII. Typographical errors are listed at the end of the text.] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CONVERSATIONS ON CHEMISTRY; In Which The Elements Of That Science Are _Familiarly Explained_ And Illustrated By Experiments. IN TWO VOLUMES. _The Fifth Edition, revised, corrected,_ _and considerably enlarged._ VOL. I. ON SIMPLE BODIES. _London:_ Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 1817. Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street, London. ADVERTISEMENT.