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Excerpt from Elements of Chemistry: Including the Most Recent Discoveries and Applications of the Science to Medicine and Pharmacy, and to the Arts <p>This work, which, as a text-book, is undoubtedly the best extant in the English language, representing the present con dition of chemical science, necessarily contains much detail. To give it completeness, it was needful to include the de scription of many bodies of little technical importance, to describe experimental processes, and sometimes to dwell on facts of minor value. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.