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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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3. _Silicious Stones._ Pure rock cristal of Madagascar 2.6530 Ditto of Brasil 2.6526 Ditto of Europe, or gelatinous 2.6548 Cristallized quartz 2.6546 Amorphous ditto 2.6471 Oriental agate 2.5901 Agate onyx 2.6375 Transparent calcedony 2.6640 Carnelian 2.6137 Sardonyx 2.6025 Prase 2.5805 Onyx pebble 2.6644 Pebble of Rennes 2.6538 White jade 2.9502 Green jade 2.9660 Red jasper 2.6612 Brown ditto 2.6911 Yellow ditto 2.7101 Violet ditto 2.7111 Gray ditto 2.7640 Jasponyx 2.8160 Black prismatic hexahedral schorl 3.3852 Black spary ditto 3.3852 Black amorphous schorl, called antique basaltes 2.9225 Paving stone 2.4158 Grind stone 2.1429 Cutler's stone 2.1113 Fountainbleau stone 2.5616 Scyth stone of Auvergne 2.5638 Ditto of Lorrain 2.5298 Mill stone 2.4835 White flint 2.5941 Blackish ditto 2.5817 4. _Various Stones, &c._ 313

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