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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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Cyder 1.0181 Highly rectified alkohol .8293 Common spirits of wine .8371 Alkohol 15 pts. water 1 part. .8527 14 2 .8674 13 3 .8815 12 4 .8947 11 5 .9075 10 6 .9199 9 7 .9317 8 8 .9427 7 9 .9519 6 10 .9594 5 11 .9674 4 12 .9733 3 13 .9791 2 14 .9852 1 15 .9919 Sulphuric ether .7394 Nitric ether .9088 Muriatic ether .7298 Acetic ether .8664 Sulphuric acid 1.8409 Nitric ditto 1.2715 Muriatic ditto 1.1940 Red acetous ditto 1.0251 White acetous ditto 1.0135 Distilled ditto ditto 1.0095 Acetic ditto 1.0626 Formic ditto .9942 Solution of caustic ammoniac, or volatil alkali fluor .8970 Essential or volatile oil of turpentine .8697 Liquid turpentine .9910 Volatile oil of lavender .8938 Volatile oil of cloves 1.0363 Volatile oil of cinnamon 1.0439 Oil of olives .9153 Oil of sweet almonds .9170 316

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