ChemistryMacmillan and Company, 1872 - 104 pages |
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alkali alum animals blue litmus bodies bubbles burnt calcium chloride called candle carbonic acid gas caustic soda chalk charcoal chemical combination Chemistry chemists clay coal gas colour colourless common salt compound contains carbon cool cork crystals dissolve distilled earth elements EXPERIMENT filter fire and burn flask form oxides form water gases gauze gypsum half an ounce hard hard water heat hydrochloric acid hydrogen iron lamp lead light lime lime-water liquid magnesium melted metal milky mixture nitre nitric acid nitrogen oxide of mercury oxygen and hydrogen oxygen gas piece potash Potassium pounds pure water quantity quicklime rain water red phosphorus red powder red-hot retort rocks silica silver small bit soap Sodium chloride sodium sulphate solid soot steam substance sulphuric acid takes fire vitriol water contains weight of oxygen whilst white powder wire yellow zinc zinc sulphate
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Page 92 - Two parts by weight of hydrogen unite with 1C parts by weight of oxygen to form 18 parts by weight of water.
Page 4 - You see that the bright glass is at once dimmed, and if you look carefully you will notice the little drops of water which bedew the inside of the glass.
Page 58 - Simple bodies, or Elements ; substances out of which nothing different can be got. 2. Compound bodies — substances out of which two or more different things can be got.
Page 39 - This is because the rain water, falling on the ground and trickling through the soil and over the rocks, always finds something which it can dissolve, and which it takes away with it. Thus the sea is constantly having soluble matter carried into it from the land, and it is becoming, though very slowly, more impure.