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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. ************************************************************************ 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. ************************************************************************ 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…

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Molten nickel 7.8070 Molten antimony 6.7021 Crude antimony 4.0643 Glass of antimony 4.9464 Molybdena 4.7385 Tungstein 6.0665 Mercury 13.5681 2. _Precious Stones._ White Oriental diamond 3.5212 Rose-coloured Oriental ditto 3.5310 Oriental ruby 4.2833 Spinell ditto 3.7600 Ballas ditto 3.6458 Brasillian ditto 3.5311 Oriental topas 4.0106 Ditto Pistachio ditto 4.0615 Brasillian ditto 3.5365 Saxon topas 3.5640 Ditto white ditto 3.5535 Oriental saphir 3.9941 Ditto white ditto 3.9911 Saphir of Puy 4.0769 Ditto of Brasil 3.1307 Girasol 4.0000 Ceylon jargon 4.4161 Hyacinth 3.6873 Vermillion 4.2299 Bohemian garnet 4.1888 Dodecahedral ditto 4.0627 Syrian ditto 4.0000 Volcanic ditto, with 24 sides 2.4684 Peruvian emerald 2.7755 Crysolite of the jewellers 2.7821 Ditto of Brasil 2.6923 Beryl, or Oriental aqua marine 3.5489 Occidental aqua marine 2.7227 312

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