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  • ALCHYMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCHYMY

    or Alchemy, a higher or more refined kind of Chemistry, employed in the more mysterious Researches of the Art. See CHEMISTRY. The Word is compounded of the Arabic Particle of Augmentation, Al, and the Latin Chymia, Egyptian Kenia, or Greek χυμεία,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    Generations, Corruptions, etc. of natural things; with all that Scene of Wonders opened to us by the Operations of Chemistry. See GENERATION, CORRUPTION, OPERATION, CHEMISTRY, etc. Some of our own Countrymen have prosecuted the Discovery with laudable...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Mechanics

  • ANALYSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ANALYSIS

    the Method of Fluxions, or Differential Calculus. See FLUXIONS, and CALCULUS.—See also INFINITE. Analysis is also used in Chemistry, for the decompounding of a mixed Body; or the Reduction thereof into its Principles. See PRINCIPLE, REDUCTION,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Logics

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    Juice secreted in the Brain, and detached thence through the Nerves for the Uses of Sensation and muscular Motion: in Chemistry, the Exhalations of Bodies expos'd to the Fire: in Theology, the third Person of the Trinity: in Metaphysics, any incorporeal...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    or Alcahest, in Chemistry, a universal Menstruum or Dissolvent, wherewith some Chemists have pretended to resolve all Bodies into their first Matter. See MENSTRUUM, DISSOLVENT, MATTER, &c. Those two eminent Adepts, Paracelsus and Helmont, expressly...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • AMALGAMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAM

    or Amalgama, in Chemistry, a Mass of Mercury, united and incorporated with a Metal. See MERCURY, and METAL. The Amalgam of Mercury with Lead, is a soft, friable Substance, of a Silver Colour. See LEAD. By washing and grinding this Amalgam with fair warm...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • 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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • ADDITAMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDITAMENT

    ADDITAMENT, Additamentum, a thing added to another. See ADDITION. Additaments, in Physic and Chemistry, are things superadded to the ordinary ingredients of any composition. ADDITAMENT

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALCALIZATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALCALIZATION

    or Alkalization, Alcalizatio, in Chemistry, the Act of impregnating a Liquor with an alkaline Salt. See ALKALY.This is done either to make it a better Dissolvent, for some particular Purposes; or to load the Phlegm, so as it may not rise in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • AMALGAMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAMATION

    in Chemistry, the Operation of making an Amalgama; i.e., of calcining, or rather dissolving some Metal, especially Gold, by means of Mercury. See AMALGAMA. Amalgamation is performed by fusing, or at least igniting the Metal; and in this State adding a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • AQUAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AQUA

    in natural History, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, etc. See WATER. The Word is pure Latin, and supposed to be compounded of a and qua, q.d. from which; alluding to the Opinion that Water is the Basis or Matter of all Bodies. Aqua fortis, is a corrosive...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Hydrology

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    whence innumerable Operations, Sublimations, Separations, Compositions, Digestions, Fermentations, Putrefactions, etc. See CHEMISTRY. For the Nature, Constitution, Properties, Uses, Diversities, etc. of the Atmosphere, see the Article AIR. We have a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALUDELShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALUDELS

    in Chemistry, Subliming-Pots. Aludels, are a Range of earthen Tubes, or Pots without bottoms; fitted, one over another, and diminishing as they advance towards the Top.—The lowest is adapted to a Pot, placed in the Furnace, wherein the Matter to be...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • ALGAROThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALGAROT

    or Algaroth, in the Arabian Chemistry, a Powder prepared of Butter of Antimony; being in reality no more than the Regulus of that Mineral, dissolved in Acids, and separated again by means of several Lotions with lukewarm Water, which imbibes those...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • ALCOHOLhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALCOHOL

    or rather Alkool, in Chemistry, an Arabic Term, chiefly understood of the purest Spirit of Wine, raised or rectified by repeated Distillations to its utmost Subtility, and Perfection; so that if Fire be set thereto, it burns wholly away, without leaving...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • ADEPTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEPTS

    etc.Ripley, Lully, Paracelsus, Helmont, Hollandus, Centivoglio, etc. are the principal figures among the Adepts. See CHEMISTRY.The word is Latin, Adeptus, formed from the verb adipiscor, meaning "I obtain."It is a sort of tradition among the Alchemists...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVE

    except what is owing to these active principles. See MOTION, GRAVITATION, FERMENTATION, etc. Active Principles, in Chemistry, are those which are supposed to act of themselves, and do not need to be put in action by others. See PRINCIPLES. Salt,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    again, may be subdivided into Civil; as Law, Politics, etc, Military, as Fortification, etc. Physical, as Agriculture, Chemistry, Anatomy, etc. Metaphysical, as Logics, pure Mathematics, etc. Philological, as Grammar, Criticism, etc. Mercantile, to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARBORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARBOR

    in natural history, botany, etc. See TREE. Arbor in chemistry—Arbor Philosophica, is a name common to several metalline crystallizations; thus called from their ramifications resembling a tree. See CRYSTALLIZATION. Such are the Arbor Dianae, Diana’s...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History
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