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Opening Elements of Chemistry
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Public domain text from Project Gutenberg.
Produced by Mark C. Orton, Josephine Paolucci and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
ELEMENTS
OF
CHEMISTRY,
IN A
NEW SYSTEMATIC ORDER,
CONTAINING ALL THE
MODERN DISCOVERIES.
ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTEEN COPPERPLATES.
BY MR LAVOISIER,
Member of the Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Medicine, and
Agricultural Society of Paris, of the Royal Society of London, and
Philosophical Societies of Orleans, Bologna, Basil, Philadelphia,
1
Haerlem, Manchester, &c. &c.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH,
BY ROBERT KERR, F.R. & A.SS.E.
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Surgeon to the Orphan
Hospital of Edinburgh.
EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM CREECH, AND SOLD IN LONDON BY G. G. AND
J. J. ROBINSONS.
MDCCXC.
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Transcriber's note: Tables needed to be split to fit space
constraints. Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved to the
end of the chapters. The italic markup for single italized
letters (such as variables in equations) and weight abbreviations are
deleted for easier reading.
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ADVERTISEMENT OF THE TRANSLATOR.
The very high character of Mr Lavoisier as a chemical philosopher, and
the great revolution which, in the opinion of many excellent chemists,
he has effected in the theory of chemistry, has long made it much
desired to have a connected account of his discoveries, and of the new
theory he has founded upon the modern experiments written by himself.
This is now accomplished by the publication of his Elements of
Chemistry; therefore no excuse can be at all necessary for giving the
following work to the p…
Contents
PART II.
Page 20 PART III.
Page 25 PART I.
Page 30 Part I. Chap. VIII. and need not be here repeated, will answer the
Page 282
2. .14740 14. 1.04182
3. .22010 15. 1.11525
No. III.
TABLE _for Converting the Ounce Measures used by Dr Priestly into French
and English Cubical Inches._
Ounce French cubical English cubical
measures. inches. inches.
1 1.567 1.898
2 3.134 3.796
3 4.701 5.694
4 6.268 7.592
5 7.835 9.490
6 9.402 11.388
7 10.969 13.286
8 12.536 15.184
9 14.103 17.082
10 15.670 18.980
20 31.340 37.960
30 47.010 56.940
40 62.680 75.920
50 78.350 94.900
60 94.020 113.880
70 109.690 132.860
80 125.360 151.840
90 141.030 170.820
100 156.700 189.800
1000 1567.000 1898.000
No. IV. ADDITIONAL.
TABLE _for Reducing the Degrees of Reaumeur's Thermometer into its
corresponding Degrees of Fahrenheit's Scale._
R. F. R. F. R. F. R. F.
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