manganese manganese. { different degrees of oxygenation.
cobalt cobalt. { Those wherein the metal is
nickel nickel. { least oxygenated must be
lead lead. { called Nitrites, when more so,
tin tin. { Nitrats; but the limits of this
copper copper. { distinction are difficultly
bismuth bismuth. { ascertainable. The older
antimony antimony. { chemists were not acquainted
arsenic arsenic. { with any of these salts.
mercury mercury. {
silver { It is extremely probable that gold, silver
gold { and platina only form nitrats, and cannot subsist
platina { in the state of nitrites.
TABLE _of the Combinations of Azote, completely saturated with Oxygen,
in the state of Nitric Acid, with the Salifiable Bases, in the order of
the affinity with the Acid_.
_Bases._ _Names of the resulting neutral salts._
_New nomenclature._ _Old nomenclature._
Barytes Nitrat of barytes Nitre, with a base of heavy earth.
Potash potash Nitre, saltpetre. Nitre with base of potash.
Soda soda { Quadrangular nitre. Nitre with base of
{ mineral alkali.
{ Calcareous nitre. Nitre with
Lime lime { calcareous base. Mother water
{ of nitre, or saltpetre.
Magnesia magnesia Magnesian nitre. Nitre with base of magnesia.
Ammoniac ammoniac Ammoniacal nitre.
{ Nitrous alum. Argillaceous nitre. Nitre
Argill argill { with base of earth of alum.
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