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Elements of Chemistry, / In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 349 pages

A foundational chemical treatise in which Lavoisier sets out a new systematic order for the science, explaining combustion, oxidation, and the composition of air and water. It replaced older theories and helped establish modern chemistry. Worth listening to for its clear, methodical style and historical importance.

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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, 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.

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Contents

  1. ELEMENTS
  2. CHEMISTRY,
  3. IN A
  4. NEW SYSTEMATIC ORDER,
  5. MODERN DISCOVERIES. ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTEEN COPPERPLATES.
  6. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH,
  7. ADVERTISEMENT OF THE TRANSLATOR.
  8. PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR.
  9. CONTENTS.
  10. ELEMENTS
  11. CHEMISTRY.
  12. PART I.
  13. CHAP. I.
  14. CHAP. II.
  15. CHAP. III.
  16. CHAP. IV.
  17. CHAP. V.
  18. CHAP. VI.
  19. CHAP. VII.
  20. CHAP. VIII.
  21. CHAP. IX.
  22. CHAP. X.
  23. CHAP. XI.
  24. CHAP. XII.
  25. CHAP. XIII.
  26. CHAP. XIV.
  27. CHAP. XV.
  28. CHAP. XVI.
  29. CHAP. XVII.
  30. PART II. Of the Combination of Acids with Salifiable Bases, and of the Formation of Neutral Salts.

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