Old Names arranged Alphabetically. Acid of fat New Names. sedative } Sebacic acid Laccic acid Lactic acid Saccho-lactic acid Gas } of lac of the sugar of milk Air dephlogisticated fetid of sulphur Air fixed solid of Hales alkaline Alkalies, fixed volatile concrete volatile caustic effervescent, ae-7 rated, or mild vegetable mineral or marine Prussian Alum Antimony, crude Aqua fortis regia ammonia pura Argil, or argillaceous earth Bezoar mineral Black lead Borax Butters of the metals Calces, metallic Ceruse Old Names arranged New Names. White oxide of antimony Charcoal, pure Carbon Colcothar of vitriol Red oxide of iron by the sul phuric acid Copper, acetated - Acetate of copper Copperas, green Sulphate of iron blue of copper Cream of tartar Acidulous tartrate of potash Earth, calcareous Lime aluminous - Alumina, or alumine siliceous Silex ponderous Barytes magnesian, or muriatic Magnesia Emetic tartar Antimoniated tartrate of potash Essences Volatile oils Ethiops, martial Black oxide of iron Black sulphureted oxide of mineral mercury Flowers, metallic Sublimated metallic oxides of sulphur Sublimated sulphur Fluors Fluates Hepars Sulphurets Heat, latent Caloric Red sulphureted oxide of anKermes mineral timony Lapis infernalis Fused nitrate of silver Leys Solutions of alkalies Liquor silicum Solution of siliceous potash of Aints Semivitreous oxide of lead or Litharge litharge Liver of sulphur, alkaline Sulphuret of potash calcareous of lime Luna cornea Muriate of silver Magistery of bismuth Oxide of bismuth by the nitric acid Magnesia alba 2 • Carbonate of magnesia black Black oxide of manganese Masticot Yellow oxide of lead Mephitis Nitrogen gas Minium Red oxide of lead Mother waters Saline residues Nitre, or saltpetre Nitrate of potass {I } { aelated} New Names. Old Names arranged Alphabetically. etherial of tartar per deliquium Phlogiston Phosphoric salts Precipitate, red Nitrates Fixed oil Essential oils A solution of potash A principle imagined by Stahl, but now not admitted Phosphates s Red oxide of mercury by the nitric acid Red oxide of mercury by fire Gallic acid Tannin Oxygen See Phlogiston Copper pyrites Iron pyrites, or sulphuret of Principle, astringent tanning inflammable Pyrites of copper Pyrites martial { iron SRed + Realgar polychrest febrifuge of Sylvius vegetable Aluor ponderous Spirit, ardent of wine fuming sulphuretted oxide of of magnesia Acidulous oxalate of potash · Carbonate of potash Tartrite of potash ! Alkohol Nitric acid Nitrous acid Muriatic acid Nero Names. Old Names arranged Alphabetically. of vitriol emetic vitriolated radical green white Water acidulated hepatic MANUFACTURES AND ARTS, The modern sciences, and particularly chemistry, have been of late successfully applied to the improvement of several of the useful arts ; and some, in consequence, have undergone almost an entire change. Of the principles of some of them we propose to give a brief description. MAKING BREAD. Scarcely any nation exists, in which the use of bread is entirely unknown, or something as a substitute for it; a dry food appearing to be nécessary to promote the secretion of saliva, in the process of mastication. In Lapland, where they have no corn, they make a kind of bread from dried fish, and of the inner rind of the bark of the pine. In some parts of America, they use, for this purpose, casava, the root of a plant which is poisonous till it is rendered wholesome by the extraction of its acrid juice. In the South Sea islands, the bread-fruit tree affords the natives a substance resembling bread. From time immemorial, the farináceous seeds have been employed as food, and they are the most nutritive of all the vegetables. Few of the alimentary substances are used by man in å raw and crude state ; almost all undergo some preparation, by which they are rendered more easy of digestion, or are more palatable. The application of |
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