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)
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
Description
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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