Conversations on Chemistry |
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Author:
| Haldimand), Marcet (Jane |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-91393-5 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONVERSATION XV. OF THE NITRIC AND CARBONIC ACIDS: OR THE COMBINATIONS OF OXYGEN WITH NITROGEN AND CARBONE; AND OF THE NITRATS AND CARBONATS. MRs. B. I Am almost afraid of introducing the subject of the Nitric: acid, as I am sure Caroline will have no mercy on me, for not having made her acquainted with it...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONVERSATION XV. OF THE NITRIC AND CARBONIC ACIDS: OR THE COMBINATIONS OF OXYGEN WITH NITROGEN AND CARBONE; AND OF THE NITRATS AND CARBONATS. MRs. B. I Am almost afraid of introducing the subject of the Nitric: acid, as I am sure Caroline will have no mercy on me, for not having made her acquainted with it before. CAROLINE. Why so, Mrs. ? MRs. B. Because you have long known its radical, which is nitrogen or azote; and, in treating of that element, I did not even hint that it was the basis of an acid. CAROLINE. Indeed, that appears to me a great omission; for you made us acquainted with all the other acids, in treating of their radicals. EMILV. I would advise you not to be too hasty in your censure, Caroline; for I dare say that Mrs. had some very good reason for not mentioning this acid sponer. Mrs. B. I do not know whether you will think'the reason Sufficiently good to acquit me; but the omission, I assure you, did not proceed from negligence. You may recollect that nitrogen was one of the first simple bodies which we examined; you were theft ignorant of the theory of combustion, which -I believe was, for the first time, mentioned in that lesson; and therefore it would have been in vain, at that time, to have attempted to explain the nature and formation of acids. CAROLINE- I wonder, however, that it never occurred to us tp inquire whether nitrogen could be acidified; for, as we knew it was classed amongst the combustible bodies, it was natural to suppose that it might produce an acid. Mrs. B. That is not a necessary consequence; for it might combine with oxygen only in the degree requisite to form an oxyd. But you will find that nitrogen is flisceptible of various degrees of oxygenation, some Vol. ii. w of which ...