Cyclopædia
Assuming alkali is required, the following 4 results were found.
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ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID
Criterion, then, of Acids, is, that they make a violent Effervescence, when mixed with another sort of Bodies, called Alkalies. See EFFERVESCENCE. Yet, this Property alone is not universally to be depended on, to determine a Body an Acid, without the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY
Alkali, or Alkathy, in Chemistry, a Name originally given, by the Arabians, to a Salt extracted from the Ashes of a Plant called Kali; and by us Glass-wort because used in the making of Glass. See KALI, and GRASS. Afterwards, the Term Alkaly became a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chymistry
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ACETOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACETOUS
mention diverse aceta, or acetous liquors; as, Acetum Alcalizatum; made of distilled vinegar, with the addition of some alkaline or volatile salt. See ALKALI. Acetum Philosophorum, a four kind of liquor; made by dissolving a little butter of antimony in...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST
Sutratar; for Nitrum, Mutrin, &c. 'tis supposed Alkahest is such a Word thus disguis'd. Hence some imagine it formed of Alkali est; and accordingly, that it was the Alkaline Salt of Tartar volatilized. This seems to have been Glauber’s Opinion; who...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chymistry