Part 17 (1/2)

tin tin Aerated tin

copper copper Aerated copper

bismuth bismuth Aerated bismuth

antimony antimony Aerated antimony

arsenic arsenic Aerated arsenic

mercury mercury Aerated old Aerated gold

platina platina Aerated platina

[Note A: As these salts have only been understood of late, they have not, properly speaking, any old names Mr Morveau, in the First Voluives them the name of _aerated_; and Mr de Fourcroy, who calls the carbonic acid _chalky acid_, gives them the name of _chalks_--A]

SECT XVII--_Observations upon Carbonic Acid, and its Combinations_

Of all the known acids, the carbonic is the most abundant in nature; it exists ready formed in chalk, marble, and all the calcareous stones, in which it is neutralized by a particular earth called _li more is requisite than to add soer affinity for lime; a brisk effervescence ensues, which is produced by the disengageas i condensed into the solid or liquid forree of cold or of pressure hitherto known, unites to about its own bulk of water, and thereby forreat abundance from saccharine matter in fermentation, but is then contaminated by a small portion of alkohol which it holds in solution

As charcoal is the radical of this acid, we as, or by co charcoal and en of the oxyd coas, and the uline fore of this acid to Dr Black, before whose tias had made it to elude the researches of chemistry

It would be a most valuable discovery to society, if we could decoht obtain, for economical purposes, the immense store of charcoal contained in calcareous earths, le affinity, because, to decompose the carbonic acid, it requires a substance as combustible as charcoal itself, so that we should only e of one combustible body for another not more valuable; but it may possibly be accomplished by double affinity, since this process is so readily perforetation, from the most common materials

TABLE _of the Combinations of Muriatic Acid, with the Salifiable Bases, in the Order of Affinity_

_Na Neutral Salts_ _bases_ _New nomenclature_ _Old no base of barytes { heavy earth

Potash potash {Febrifuge salt of Sylvius: { Muriated vegetable fixed { alkali

Soda soda Sea-salt

Linesia {Marine Epsonesia

Aill {Muriated alum, sea-salt { with base of earth of alum

Oxyd of zinc zinc Sea-salt of, or muriatic zinc

iron iron Salt of iron, Martial sea-salt

anese

cobalt cobalt Sea-salt of cobalt

nickel nickel Sea-salt of nickel

lead lead horny-lead Plu liquor of Libavius

solid of tin Solid butter of tin

copper copper Sea-salt of copper

bismuth bismuth Sea-salt of bismuth

antimony antimony Sea-salt of antimony