Researches into the laws of chemical affinity / by C.L. Berthollet ; Translated from the French by M. Farrell.

  • Berthollet, Claude-Louis, 1748-1822.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Researches into the laws of chemical affinity / by C.L. Berthollet ; Translated from the French by M. Farrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the corrosive muriate of mercury, that part only can produce a detonation, which may be con¬ sidered as free from the adtion of muriatic acid, and which may be reduced by the adtion of heat. Such of these precipitates, then, as retain a large proportion of muriatic acid, and which consequently are reducible to the me¬ tallic state in but a very small proportion, can¬ not explode : of this kind are the precipitates by ammonia, by carbonate of ammonia, and carbonate of potash. The property discovered by Bayen must be, then, analogous to the fulminating property of the orate and argentate of ammonia. As this property is not found in other me¬ tallic oxydes and precipitates, we may safely conclude that their oxygen is more desti¬ tute of caloric than that of the fulminating oxydes. The properties which depend on oxydation, vary, then, in each metal, according to the pro¬ portion