Descriptive Chemistry, Part 1D.C. Heath & Company, 1909 - 590 pages |
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Page 448 - Calcium Ca Carbon C Cerium Ce Chlorine Cl Chromium Cr Cobalt Co Columbium Cb Copper Cu Dysprosium Dy Erbium Er Europium Eu Fluorine F Gadolinium Gd Gallium Ga Germanium Ge...
Page 120 - I propose to distinguish such bodies by calling those anions\ which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode •, catsms\; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.
Page 41 - Water is called the solvent and the dissolved substance is called the solute.
Page 448 - Cs CALCIUM Ca CARBON C Cerium Ce CHLORINE Cl Chromium Cr Cobalt Co Columbium Cb Copper Cu...
Page 167 - Avogadro's law states that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules.
Page 62 - ... inches, because at elevated places the height and consequently counterbalancing weight of the atmosphere is -less than at places at a lower level. By a law of hydrostatics, the heights of two columns of liquids in communication with each other are inversely as their densities ; hence it follows that the pressure of the atmosphere is equal to the weight of a column of mercury, the height of which is 30 inches.
Page 169 - The vapor density of any gas is the weight of a given volume of it in terms of the weight of an equal volume of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure. In...
Page 328 - It is obtained in large quantities as a by-product in the manufacture of stearic acid (p.
Page 168 - Thus, one volume of hydrogen combines with one volume of chlorine to form two volumes of hydrochloric acid gas...
Page 26 - Graham's law states that, under the same conditions, the rate of diffusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its density.