A Manual of Chemistry Containing a Condensed View of the Present State of the
A Manual of Chemistry Containing a Condensed View of the Present State of the
Lewis C Lewis Caleb Beck
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Thomson has given Jarge doses of the nitiate and muriate of lead to rabbits without producing perceptible inconvenience. He finds that acetate of lead, mixed with vinegar to prevent the formation of any carbonate, may be freely and safely administer- ed in medical practice. Turner's Chem. 4th ed. 589, 340 MERCURY. CLASS VI. METALS, THE OXIDES OP WHICH ARE DECOMPOSED BY A RED HEAT. SECTION XXXV. MERCURY. Atom. JYMOT. 2W. Symb. Fg*. Sp. Gr. 13568. This metal was known to the ancients. It received... the name of Quicksilver from the alchemists. It occurs native, or in combination with sulphur, forming Cinnfibar, from which the metal may be separat- ed by distillation with quicklime or iron filings. PROPERTIES. Mercury is distinguished from all other metals by be- ing fluid at the ordinary temperature ; it lias a tin-white colour, and strong metallic lustre ; becomes solid at the temperature of 39 or 40 below zero, and in congealing, evinces a strong tendency to crys- tallize in octahedrons ; it contracts greatly at the moment of congela- tion, for while its density at 47 J F.
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