Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Antoine Lavoisier, Claude-Louis Bertholet, and Antoine de Fourcroy

A Dictionary of the New Chymical Nomenclature

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[2]That is to say, by an acid of nitre containing less oxygen than that which we have denominated nitric acid, and which form the nitrats. [original note]

Transcriber's note

This dictionary was laid out to facilitate looking up a term in the new nomenclature and having it defined in terms of an older name. Now it is the "new" nomenclature that is familiar and the "ancient" nomenclature that is strange, and therefore more likely to be looked upthis can be done using the search or find command on your browser.

Finally, note that the "new" nomenclature is similar, but not identical, to the familiar modern binary ionic nomenclature in which -ic and -ous denote higher and lower oxidation states of cations, and -ate and -ite higher and lower degrees of oxidation of anions. In English, in the modern binary nomenclature, the cation precedes the anion; in this version, the opposite order holds. The orthography of the translator, St. John, is preserved in this selection: -at rather than the modern -ate (e.g., in "acetat"). Finally, note that the Method of Chymical Nomenclature represents an important advance, but it was not always correct; see, for example, acetate ("acetat") and acetite, and acetic and acetous acid. --CJG

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