Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2: In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by ExperimentsMarcet, Mrs. (Jane Haldimand)
Science
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2: In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
Marcet, Mrs. (Jane Haldimand)
Chemistry
Of the Sulphuric Acid. --Combustion of Animal or Vegetable Bodies by
this Acid. --Method of preparing it. -- The Sulphurous Acid obtained
in the Form of Gas. --May be obtained from Sulphuric Acid. --May be
reduced to Sulphur. --Is absorbable by Water. --Destroys Vegetable
Colours. --Oxyd of Sulphur. --Of Salts in general. --Sulphats.
--Sulphat of Potash, or Sal Polychrest. --Cold produced by the
melting of Salts. --Sulphat of Soda, or Glauber’s Salt. --Heat
evolved during the Formation of Salts. --Crystallisation of Salts.
--Water of Crystallisation. --Efflorescence and Deliquescence of
Salts. --Sulphat of Lime, Gypsum or Plaister of Paris. --Sulphat of
Magnesia. --Sulphat of Alumine, or Alum. --Sulphat of Iron. --Of
Ink. --Of the Phosphoric and Phosphorous Acids. --Phosphorus
obtained from Bones. --Phosphat of Lime.
CONVERSATION XVIII.
OF THE NITRIC AND CARBONIC ACIDS: OR THE COMBINATION OF
OXYGEN WITH NITROGEN AND WITH CARBON; AND OF THE NITRATS AND
CARBONATS. 100
Nitrogen susceptible of various Degrees of Acidification. --Of the
Nitric Acid. --Its Nature and Composition discovered by
Mr. Cavendish. --Obtained from Nitrat of Potash. --Aqua Fortis.
--Nitric Acid may be converted into Nitrous Acid. --Nitric Oxyd Gas.
--Its Conversion into Nitrous Acid Gas. --Used as an Eudiometrical
Test. --Gaseous Oxyd of Nitrogen, or exhilarating Gas, obtained from
Nitrat of Ammonia. --Its singular Effects on being respired.
--Nitrats. --Of Nitrat of Potash, Nitre or Saltpetre. --Of
Gunpowder. --Causes of Detonation. --Decomposition of Nitre.
--Deflagration. --Nitrat of Ammonia. --Nitrat of Silver. --Of the
Carbonic Acid. --Formed by the Combustion of Carbon. --Constitutes a
component Part of the Atmosphere. --Exhaled in some Caverns.
--Grotto del Cane. --Great Weight of this Gas. --Produced from
calcareous Stones by Sulphuric Acid. --Deleterious Effects of this
Gas when respired. --Sources which keep up a Supply of this Gas in
the Atmosphere. --Its Effects on Vegetation. --Of the Carbonats of
Lime; Marble, Chalk, Shells, Spars, and calcareous Stones.
CONVERSATION XIX.
ON THE BORACIC, FLUORIC, MURIATIC, AND OXYGENATED MURIATIC ACIDS;
AND ON MURIATS. 131
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