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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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