IVISON, PHINNEY, BLAKEMAN, AND CO.,

47 & 49 GREENE STREET.

1868.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

THE AUTHORS

INSCRIBE THIS BOOK TO THEIR TEACHER IN CHEMISTRY,

PROF. JOSIAH P. COOKE,

OF HARVARD COLLEGE,

IN TOKEN OF

GRATITUDE AND FRIENDSHIP.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Introduction.-Subject matter of Chemistry. Chemical change. Ana-

lysis and synthesis. Fact and theory

Chap. I.-Air. Atmospheric pressure. Properties. Analysis. Air a

mixture. Composition of air

Chap. II.-Oxygen. Preparation and properties of oxygen. Oxygen sup-

ports combustion. Oxides. Oxidation. Wide diffusion of oxygen

Chap. III.-Nitrogen. Preparation and properties of nitrogen.

Chap. IV.-Water. Properties of water. The gramme. Specific gravity.

Specific heat. Ice. Steam. Analysis, electrolysis, and synthesis of water. Hy-

drogen. Atoms and molecules. Molecular hypothesis. Atomic weights. Che-

mical combination. The chemical force. Water in nature. Distillation. Pre-

paration of pure water. Solution. Solution and chemical combination compared

Chap. V.-Hydrogen. Preparation and properties of hydrogen. Symbols.

Diffusion of gases.
Diffusive power and inflammability of hydrogen. Heat

from burning hydrogen. Unit of heat. Oxyhydrogen blowpipe. Form of gas-

flames. Explosive mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen. Oxygen burns in hydrogen

as well as hydrogen in oxygen

Chap. VI.-Compounds of oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen. Peroxide of

hydrogen. Nitric acid. One of the meanings of the terms acid and alkaline.

Neutralization. Nitrous oxide. Composition of nitrous oxide. Atomic weight

of nitrogen. Properties of nitrous oxide. Nitric oxide. A test for free oxygen.

The terminations ous and ic. Hyponitric acid. Nitrous acid. Analysis of nitric

acid. Synopsis of the oxides of nitrogen. Law of multiple proportions. Definite

and obscure chemical action. Air a mixture. Anhydrous and hydrated nitric

acid. Oxidizing and reducing agents. Atomic weights and combining weights.

Molecular formule. Combining weight of nitric acid. Nitric acid reactions.

Nitrogen and hydrogen. Ammonia. Analysis and synthesis of ammonia.

Nascent state. Composition of ammonia. Ammonium. Salts of ammonium.

Sources of ammonia. Ammonia-water. Empirical and rational formula. Dua-

listic formula. Typical formula. Uses of symbolic formula

Chap. VII.-Chlorhydric acid. Properties, analysis, and composition of

chlorhydric acid. Atomic weight of chlorine. Synthesis of chlorhydric acid.

Manufacture of chlorhydric acid. Practical application of chemical equations.

Chemical affinity. Preparation and uses of chlorhydric acid. Aqua regia.

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