Chemical Essays: Principally Relating to the Arts And Manufactures of the British Dominions 2
Chemical Essays: Principally Relating to the Arts And Manufactures of the British Dominions 2
Samuel Parkes
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Fulhame had no diffi- culty in producing the same effect, when she merely digested an alcoholic solution of pot- ash on charcoal powder, and employed the, ON CARBON, 859 all the gases in abundance; it de-» composes many of the acids by abs-* trading their oxygen ; and it is one of the bases of the prussic acid and of a great many other compounds 7. One of the most important of these combinations is in the article of gunpowder, which is generally made to contain about fifteen per cent, of charco...al. The usual pro-r portions of its ingredients are 76 parts of well purified nitre, 9 of sulphur, and 15 of charcoal. The first intimation that was given of gunpowder, was by that great liquor which resulted from it. Fulhame on Combustion, 8vo, 1794, pages 126 — 134. 7 From charcoal aod nitrous acid Mr, Hat* cfcett forms his artificial tannin. 960 ON CARBON. philosopher Roger Bacon, in his treatise entitled, De Nullitate Ma- gice, published at Oxford in 13 16, nearly 150 years before the inven- tion of printing, and about 22 years after the death of its venerable au- thor.
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