New Names. | Correspondent old Names. |
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Light | Light. |
Caloric | Heat. |
Principle or element of heat. | |
Fire. Igneous fluid. | |
Matter of fire and of heat. | |
Oxygen | Depholgisticated air. |
Empyreal air. | |
Vital air, or | |
Base of vital air. | |
Azote | Phlogisticated air or gas. |
Mephitis, or its base. | |
Hydrogen | Inflammable air or gas, |
or the base of inflammable air. |
New Names. | Correspondent old names. |
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Sulphur | The same names. |
Phosphorus | |
Charcoal | |
Muriatic radical | Still unknown. |
Fluoric radical | |
Boracic radical |
New Names. | Correspondent Old Names. | |
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Antimony | Regulus of | Antimony. |
Arsenic | " " | Arsenic |
Bismuth | " " | Bismuth |
Cobalt | " " | Cobalt |
Copper | " " | Copper |
Gold | " " | Gold |
Iron | " " | Iron |
Lead | " " | Lead |
Manganese | " " | Manganese |
Mercury | " " | Mercury |
Molybdena | " " | Molybdena |
Nickel | " " | Nickel |
Platina | " " | Platina |
Silver | " " | Silver |
Tin | " " | Tin |
Tungstein | " " | Tungstein |
Zinc | " " | Zinc |
New Names. | Correspondent Old Names. |
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Lime | Chalk, calcareous earth. |
Quicklime. | |
Magnesia | Magnesia, base of Epsom salt. |
Calcined or caustic magnesia. | |
Barytes | Barytes, or heavy earth. |
Argill | Clay, earth of alum. |
Silex | Siliceous or vitrifiable earth. |
Thus, as chemistry advances towards perfection, by dividing and subdividing, it is impossible to say where it is to end; and these things we at present suppose simple may soon be found quite otherwise. All we dare venture to affirm of any substance is, that it must be considered as simple in the present state of our knowledge, and so far as chemical analysis has hitherto been able to show. We may even presume that the earths must soon cease to be considered as simple bodies; they are the only bodies of the salifiable class which have no tendency to unite with oxygen; and I am much inclined to believe that this proceeds from their being already saturated with that element. If so, they will fall to be considered as compounds consisting of simple substances, perhaps metallic, oxydated to a certain degree. This is only hazarded as a conjecture; and I trust the reader will take care not to confound what I have related as truths, fixed on the firm basis of observation and experiment, with mere hypothetical conjectures.
The fixed alkalies, potash, and soda, are omitted in the foregoing Table, because they are evidently compound substances, though we are ignorant as yet what are the elements they are composed of.