Elementary inorganic chemistry, the non-metallic elements

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Page 34 - The Specific Heat of a body is the ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise that body one degree to the quantity required to raise an equal weight of water one degree.
Page 6 - Antimony Argon Arsenic Barium Bismuth Boron Bromine Cadmium Caesium Calcium Carbon Cerium Chlorine Chromium Cobalt Columbium...
Page 12 - The smallest proportion by weight in which the element enters into or is expelled from a chemical compound, — the smallest weight of hydrogen so entering or leaving a chemical compound being taken as unity.
Page xiv - H2 in dibasic acids exclude the possibility of acid salts, unless two molecules of acid enter into the reaction. The reaction with litmus is obviously no criterion of the normal or acid constitution of a salt. " When the number of bonds of the metal or compound positive radical in a salt exceeds the number of atoms of displaceable hydrogen in the acid, the compound is usually termed a basic salt,
Page 33 - The quantity of heat, which must be communicated to a body in a given state in order to convert it into another state without changing its temperature.
Page 44 - ... the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the mercury in the cistern.
Page 30 - The specific gravity of a solid is its weight compared with the weight of an equal volume of distilled water at the temperature of 39.2° F.
Page 7 - Palladium, . Phosphorus, . Platinum, Potassium, . Rhodium, Rubidium, . Ruthenium, . Selenium, Silicon, Silver, . Sodium, Strontium, . Sulphur, Tantalum, . Tellurium, . Thallium, Thorium, Tin, Titanium, Tungsten, Uranium, Vanadium . Yttrium, Zinc, Zirconium...
Page 82 - In other tables Snell seeks to prove that a ventilation of over 12,000 cubic feet per man abolishes illness. He points out that candles smoke in compressed air, but cease to do so if put within a lamp chimney so as to increase the draught. As the velocity of diffusion of a gas varies inversely as the square root of the density, he attributes the smokiness of the candle to the slow diffusion of the products of combustion.

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