A System of Chemistry: In Four Volumes, Volume 1Abraham Small, No. 112, Chesnut Street, 1818 |
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Page 175 - The compound of oxygen and iodine, when entirely freed by heat from the compound of oxygen and chlorine, appears as a white semi-transparent solid ; it has no smell, but a strong astringent sour taste. Its specific gravity is considerable ; for it rapidly sinks in sulphuric acid. When heated strongly it decomposes, undergoing fusion at the moment, and is entirely converted into gaseous matter and iodine, leaving no residuum whatever. It requires for its entire decomposition a heat which is rather...
Page 60 - If we take a bar of iron and a piece of stone of equal dimensions, and, putting one end of each into the fire, apply either thermometers or our hands to the other, we shall find the extremity of the iron sensibly hot long before that of the stone. Caloric therefore is not conducted through all bodies with the same celerity and ease.
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Page 88 - ... instantly rises to the freezing point; so that the water has acquired ten degrees of caloric in an instant. Now, whence came these ten degrees ? Is it not evident that they must have come from that part of the water which was frozen, and consequently that water in the act of freezing gives out caloric ? From a good many experiments which I have made on water in these circumstances, I have found reason to conclude, that the quantity of ice which forms suddenly on the agitation of water, cooled...