A General System of Nature, Through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, Vol. 7 of 7 PDF Download

Author: Charles Linnè
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781332988563
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422

Get Book

Book Description
Excerpt from A General System of Nature, Through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, Vol. 7 of 7: Systematically Divided Into Several Classes, Orders, Genera, Species and Varieties, With Their Habitations, Manners, Economy, Structure, and Peculiarities Vitriol, the produe't of alum, intimately allied to metal, is of different appearance and figure according'to the nature of the me tal, of which the molt frequent are Iron, Coppbr, and Zinc; fome therefore molt commonly become fnlphureous Pyrites, others terrene Ochres. Different Pyrites aliiune 'different figures, whofe earth into which it is refolved is ufinally denominated Ochre, which when proceeding from Iron is yellow, and becomes red when burnt when from Copper by acid is green, by alcali blue: fo that {tones which are yellow or red, are pincipally from Iron; thole which are green or blue, from Copper. Each kind of Ochre, by cryltallization, coagulates earths into Tophs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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."