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Conversations on chemistry : in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments : in two volumes (v.2)

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Type of record: Book

Title: Conversations on chemistry : in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments : in two volumes (v.2)

Level: Item

Classmark: Chemistry A-0.062/MAR

Creator(s): Marcet, Mrs (1769-1858)

Additional creator(s): Lowry, Wilson (1762-1824) (Other)

Related people: Lowry, Wilson

Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1824

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 v

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/209334

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010618679705181

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Vol. 1: xvii, [1], 376 p., 12 leaves of plates; vol. 2: xi, 376 p., 3 leaves of plates.


Preface to vol. 1 describes publication of the author's Conversations on natural philosophy.


Fifteen numbered plates engraved on copper by Wilson Lowry after drawings by the author, dated: Octr. 2nd, 1809.


Errata: Vol. 1, [1] p. following p. xvii.


Cf. Osborne Coll., p. 829.


Contents (from t.p.): Vol. 1. On simple bodies -- v. 2. On compound bodies.


Includes index.


Contents: Vol. 1: On the general principles of chemistry -- On light and heat -- Continuation of the same subject -- On combined caloric, comprehending specific heat and latent heat -- On the chemical agencies of electricity -- On oxygen and nitrogen -- On hydrogen -- On sulphur and phosporus -- On carbon -- On metals. -- Vol. 2: On the attraction of composition -- On alkalies -- On earths -- On acids -- On the sulphuric and phosphoric acids -- On the nitric and carbonic acids -- On the boracic, fluoric, muriatic, and oxygenated muriatic acids -- On the nature and composition of vegetables -- On the decomposition of vegetables -- History of vegetaion -- On the composition of animals -- On the animal economy -- On animalization, nutrition, and respiration -- On animal heat and of various animal products.

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