Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances, by Joseph Black This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances Author: Joseph Black Release Date: February 13, 2008 [EBook #24591] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EXPERIMENTS UPON MAGNESIA ALBA *** Produced by Bryan Ness, Greg Bergquist, Jamie Atiga and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Alembic Club Reprints—No. 1. EXPERIMENTS UPON MAGNESIA ALBA, QUICKLIME, AND SOME OTHER ALCALINE SUBSTANCES. BY JOSEPH BLACK, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, 1766-1797. (1755.) Edinburgh: PUBLISHED BY THE ALEMBIC CLUB. Edinburgh Agent: WILLIAM F. CLAY, 18 Teviot Place. London Agents: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, & CO. LTD. 1898. P R E F A C E . lack's Paper entitled "Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quicklime, andB some other Alcaline Substances" was read in June 1755, and was first published in "Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary. Read before a Society in Edinburgh, and Published by them," Volume II., Edinburgh, 1756; pp. 157-225.