Nomenclature quiz

Obsolete nomenclature challenge

from poster HIST 3, Méthode de nomenclature chimique revisited, presented by Carmen Giunta at SciMix poster session, 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 17, 2009

butter of arsenic = arsenic trichloride
gas of Prussian blue = hydrogen cyanide
Glauber's salt = sodium sulfate
lunar crystals = silver nitrate
martial chalk = ferric carbonate
muriate of lime = calcium chloride
oil of vitriol = sulfuric acid
sugar of lead = lead(II) acetate
Sylvius's febrifuge salt = potassium chlorde
verdigris = basic copper acetate

For more information on old chemical terms and the reforms of the Méthode de nomenclature chimique, check out the following sources:

Page images of Méthode de nomenclature chimique (in French)
Glossary of Archaic Chemical Terms and related nomenclature resources at Classic Chemistry, including A Dictionary of the New Chymical Nomenclature from the first English translation of the Méthode