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such chemical books as treat upon these operations. We are probably only acquainted as yet with a part of the metallic substances existing in nature, as all those which have a stronger affinity to oxygen, than charcoal possesses, are incapable of being reduced to the metallic state, and, consequently, being only presented to our observation under the form of oxyds, are confounded with earths. It is extremely probable that barytes, which we have just now arranged with earths, is in this situation; for in many experiments it exhibits properties nearly approaching to those of metallic bodies. It is even possible that all the substances we call earths may be only metallic oxyds, irreducible by any hitherto known process. Those metallic bodies we are at present acquainted with, and which we can reduce to the metallic or reguline state, are the following seventeen: 1. Arsenic. 2. Molybdena. 3. Tungstein. 4. Manganese. 5. Nickel. 6. Cobalt. 7. Bismuth. 8. Antimony. 9. Zinc. 10. Iron. 11. Tin. 12. Lead. 13. Copper. 14. Mercury. 15. Silver. 16. Platina. 17. Gold. I only mean to consider these as salifiable bases, without entering at all upon the consideration of their properties in the arts, and for the uses of society. In these points of view each metal would require a complete treatise, which would lead me far beyond the bounds I have prescribed for this work. FOOTNOTES: [30] I have not ventured to omit this element, as here enumerated with the other principles of animal and vegetable substances, though it is not at all taken notice of in the preceding chapters as entering into the composition of these bodies.--E. [31] Perhaps my thus rejecting the alkalies from the class of salts may be considered as a capital defect in the method I have adopted, and I am ready to admit the charge; but this inconvenience is compensated by so many advantages, that I could not think it of sufficient consequence to make me alter my plan.--A. [32] Called Alumine by Mr Lavoisier; but as Argill has been in a manner naturalized to the language for this substance by Mr Kirwan, I have ventured to use it in preference.--E. CHAP. XVII. _Continuation of the Observations upon Salifiable Bases, and the Formation of Neutral Salts._ It is necessary to remark, that earths and alkalies unite with acids to form neutral salts without the interventi
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