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. 1822 Excerpt: ...and if the hydrate consist of 1 atom of soda + 1 atom oflwater, the atom of hydrate of soda should weigh 36.5, and the hydrate should be composed of. 76.7 soda 23.3 water 100. In these instances, the theoretical view, and the best practical result confirm each other. It is often of importance to know the quantity of ...
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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. 1822 Excerpt: ...and if the hydrate consist of 1 atom of soda + 1 atom oflwater, the atom of hydrate of soda should weigh 36.5, and the hydrate should be composed of. 76.7 soda 23.3 water 100. In these instances, the theoretical view, and the best practical result confirm each other. It is often of importance to know the quantity of real alkali, contained in solutions of different s ecific gravities. The following tables have been constructed by l'l)r. Dalton from his own experiments, conducted with great attention to accuracy. 1. Table of the Quantity of Real Potash in watery Solutions of different Specific Gravities. S1-10T-X-ANALYSIS 01! nxen ALKALIES. 181 2. Table of the Qiumtity of Real Soda in watery Qolutionshof different Specific Gravities. Though _it had long been conjectured)' that the fixed alkalies are not simple or elementary bodies, et no distinct evidence had been obtained of their nature, until, in the year 1807, it was furnished by the splendid discoveries of Sir H. Davy. From the facts, which have been stated in a former section respectin the powers of electrical decomposition, it appeared to that philosoifier a natural inference, that the same powers, ap lied in a state of t e highest ossible intensity, might disunite the elements of some bodies, whicli had resisted all other instruments of analysis. If potash, for example, were an oxide, composed of oxygen united to an inflammable base, it seemed to him probable, that when subjected to the action of opposite electricities, the oxygen would be attracted by the positive wire and repelled by the negative. At the same time, the reverse process might be expected to take place with res ect to the combustible base, the appearance of which might be looked) for at the negative pole. In his first experiments...
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