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id: 37283
author: Anonymous
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title:
  The Whole Secret Laid Open, Or the Complete Art of Making the Chemical Fulminating Objects, Such as the Lace, or Girt of Security, Fulminating Letters, Balls, Bombs, Garters, Cards, Spiders, Segars, Chairs, Drawers, Boots, Shoes, &c. &c.

summary:
  These are prepared by enclosing half a grain of Brugnatelli's Fulminating Silver in a fold of glass paper, and pasting it in the middle of a piece of court plaster; if the edges of the court plaster are then slightly wet, it will adhere, and must be placed in the middle of the heel of a boot or shoe, and by being pressed upon will detonate loudly. These may be made by inclosing half a grain of Brugnatelli's Fulminating Silver in a small fold of glass paper, and putting it into a ferule, which ferule may be placed gently on the stick; and on its being applied to the ground, a loud explosion will take place.


id: 31624
author: Watson, Glen W.
title: A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis
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sentence: 194
flesch: 57
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summary:
  For the next two and three-quarters centuries the chemists had much fun and some fame discovering new elements. Occasionally the development of a new technique would lead to the easy discovery of a whole group of new elements.


id: 37682
author: Priestley, Joseph
title: Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry
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  These two electricities having been first discovered by producing one of them from glass, and the other from amber, sealing-wax, sulphur, rosin, &c. first obtained the names of _vitreous_ and _resinous_ electricity; and it being afterwards imagined that one of them was a redundancy, and the other a deficiency, of a supposed electric fluid, the former has obtained the name of _positive_, and the latter that of _negative_, electricity; and these terms are now principally in use. The semi-metals are _bismuth_, _zinc_, _nickel_, regulus of _arsenic_, of _cobalt_, of _antimony_, of _manganese_, of _wolfram_, and of _molybdena_.


id: 4524
author: Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von
title: Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and Its Relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture
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sentence: 1227
flesch: 53
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summary:
  Animal bodies subject to constant waste. The primary conditions of the maintenance of animal life, are a constant supply of certain matters, animal food, and of oxygen, in the shape of atmospheric air.


id: 14474
author: Faraday, Michael
title: The Chemical History of a Candle
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summary:
  Water, therefore, ought to contain that other substance which the candle takes from the air, and which, combining with the hydrogen, produces water. Now, having previously arranged an experiment for the purpose of condensing water from the products of the candle, my next point will be to shew you this water; and perhaps one of the best means that I can adopt for shewing its presence to so many at once, is to exhibit a very visible action of water, and then to apply that test to what is collected as a drop at the bottom of that vessel.


id: 14218
author: Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
title: The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
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sentence: 1852
flesch: 59
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summary:
  Besides describing apparatus for distilling, subliming, and other processes in the laboratory, French gives directions for making tinctures, essences, essential oils, spirits of salt, and pure saltpetre, oil of vitriol, butter of antimony, calces (or as we now say, oxides) of metals, and many other substances. It must he admitted that the alchemists could cite many instances of transmutations which seemed to lead to the conclusion, that there is no difference of kind between the metals and other substances such as water, acids, oils, resins, and wood.


id: 29734
author: Priestley, Joseph
title: Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
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flesch: 59
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summary:
  Besides, _acid_ and _alkaline_ air do not differ from _common air_ One reason for the present publication has been the favourable reception of those of my _Observations on different kinds of air_, which were published in the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1772, and the demand for them by persons who did not chuse, for the sake of those papers only, to purchase the whole volume in which they were contained.


id: 38246
author: Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
title: Heroes of Science: Chemists
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summary:
  This compound atom, if positive, will exhibit affinity for other compound atoms in which negative electricity predominates; if negative, it will exhibit affinity for other positively electrified compound atoms. The experiment with the nails was made in 1779; at this time, therefore, Priestley had no conception as to what his _dephlogisticated air_ really was.


id: 22914
author: Boyle, Robert
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title:
  The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.

summary:
  And this is the _first_ of my two Considerations; the _Other_ is, That it is not impossible that the Corpuscles into which a body is dissipated by the Fire may by the Operation of the same fire have their figures so altered, or may be by associations with one another brought into little Masses of such a Size and Shape, as not to be fit to make sensible Impressions on the Tongue. And if some just Considerations did not for the present Forbid it, I could Perchance here shew you by another Experiment or Two of my own Trying, that such _Menstruums_ may be made as to entice away and retain divers parts, from Bodies, which even the more Judicious and Experienc'd _Spagyrists_ have pronounc'd irresoluble by the Fire.


id: 30775
author: Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
title: Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries
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summary:
  of acid gas were formed. This gas weighs 0.695 parts of a grain for each cubical inch, in the common standard temperature and pressure mentioned above, so that 34,242 cubical inches of acid gas are produced by the combustion of one pound of charcoal.


id: 20848
author: Henderson, William Edwards
title: An Elementary Study of Chemistry
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summary:
  The changes which take place in the preparation of hydrogen from zinc and sulphuric acid (diluted with water) may be represented as follows: _ _ _ _ | hydrogen |(sulphuric | zinc |(zinc zinc + | sulphur | acid) TABLE SHOWING COMPOSITION OF GASES =====================+================+========+========+========== | PENNSYLVANIA | COAL | WATER | ENRICHED | NATURAL | GAS | GAS | WATER | GAS | | | GAS ---------------------+----------------+--------+--------+---------- Hydrogen | | 41.3 | 52.88 | 30.00 Methane | 90.64 | 43.6 | 2.16 | 24.00 Illuminants | | 3.9 | | 12.05 Carbon monoxide | | 6.4 | 36.80 | 29.00 Carbon dioxide | 0.30 | 2.0 | 3.47 | 0.30 Nitrogen | 9.06 | 1.2 | 4.69 | 2.50 Oxygen | | 0.3 | | 1.50 Hydrocarbon vapors | | 1.5 | | 1.50 =====================+================+========+========+========== These are analyses of actual samples, and may be taken as about the average for the various kinds of gases.


id: 46998
author: Macquer, Pierre Joseph
title: Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed.
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  _Of_ WATER. In treating of earths in general we observed that they may be divided into two principal kinds; one of which actually and properly flows when exposed to the action of fire, and turns to glass; whence it is called a _fusible_ or _vitrifiable_ earth; the other resists the utmost force of fire, and is therefore said to be an _unfusible_ or _unvitrifiable_ earth.


id: 54210
author: Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich
title: The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II
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summary:
  Its specific gravity is 19·1 (according to Roscoe), so that, like uranium, platinum, &c., it is one of the heaviest metals.[9 bis] Just as sulphur and chromium have their corresponding persulphuric and perchromic acids, H_{2}S_{2}O_{8} and H_{2}CrO_{8}, having the properties of peroxides, and corresponding to peroxide of hydrogen, so also molybdenum and tungsten are known to give _permolybdic_ and _pertungstic_ acids, H_{2}Mo_{2}O_{8} and H_{2}W_{2}O_{8}, which have the properties of true peroxides, _i.e._ easily disengage iodine from KI and chlorine from HCl, easily part with their oxygen, and are formed by the action of peroxide of hydrogen, into which they are readily reconverted (hence they may be regarded as compounds of H_{2}O_{2} with 2MoO_{3} and 2WO_{3}), &c. a large amount of _hydrogen_.


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