This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...is (as my readers are aware) divisible into simple and compound matter. Thus, for instance, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, silver, mercury, &c. &c, are all examples of simple mineral matter; while carbonate of ammonia, nitrate of silver, oxide of mercury, &c. &c., (in which different species of mineral ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...is (as my readers are aware) divisible into simple and compound matter. Thus, for instance, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, silver, mercury, &c. &c, are all examples of simple mineral matter; while carbonate of ammonia, nitrate of silver, oxide of mercury, &c. &c., (in which different species of mineral matter are chemically combined), are instances of compound mineral matter. I have already endeavoured to point out that all organisms (viz., organizing agents) are divisible into simple and compound organisms, and have further endeavoured to show that an organism (or organizing agent) in conjunction with what I have termed a residual product (that is, in conjunction with something upon which that organism can confer organization), is essential to constitute a living organism; that is, in other words, is essential to constitute what we understand by a living being. My present object is to endeavour to point t "What, then, let us first inquire, are the different kinds of compound mineral matter which are to be met with in the inanimate or unorganized world? There are but three orders or classes of mineral matter, to some one of which every chemical compound, in the inanimate or unorganized world, must of necessity be referred--namely, such compound must either be--first, a neutral compound (that is, possessed neither of what chemists term electro-negative, nor of electro-positive properties), such for example as water, as also what we term a neutral salt; or, secondly, it must be a compound possessed of what by chemists have been named electro-negative properties; such, for example, as what in chemistry is called an acid; or finally, it must be a compound possessed of what are termed electro-positive properties; as, for instance, those compounds...
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