Chemicals. (Their Popular, Also Their Chemical Names)
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This section is from the book "Workshop Receipts For Manufacturers And Scientific Amateurs. Supplement Aluminium To Wireless", by The Chemical Publishing Co.. Also available from Amazon: Workshop Receipts For Manufacturers And Scientific Amateurs.
Chemicals. (Their Popular, Also Their Chemical Names)
Popular Names. | Chemical Names. |
Aqua fortis .... | .... Nitric acid. |
Aqua regia .... | .... Nitric & hydrochloric acids, mixed. |
Bittern | Potassium bromide. |
Blue vitro | .... Sulphate of copper. |
Brown acid .... | .... Sulphuric acid, Sp. Gr. 1.75. |
Butter of antimony.... | .... Antimonius chloride. |
Butter of tin | Stannic hydrate |
Cream of tartar | Bitartrate of potassium. |
Calomel .... ........ | .... Chloride of mercury. |
Caustic potash | .... Potassium hydrate. |
Caustic soda ........ | .... Sodium hydroxide. |
Chloroform .... | .... Chloride of formyle. |
Common salt ........ | Sodium chloride. |
Copperas | Sulphate of iron |
Corrosive sublimate. | Bichloride of mercury. |
Dry alum | .... Sulphate, aluminium and potassium. |
Epsom salts .... | .... Sulphate of magnesia. |
Ethiops mineral | .... Black sulphate of mercury. |
Fire damp | Light carburetted hydrogen and air. |
Flowers of sulphur | .... Sulphur, fine dust. |
Fluor-spar .... | .... Calcium fluoride. |
Galena | .... Lead sulphide. |
Glauber's salts | .... Sodium sulphate. |
Glucose | ... Grape sugar. |
Gypsum | Calcium sulphate. |
Iceland spar | .... Calcium carbonate. |
Iron pyrites .... | ... Bisulphide of iron. |
Ivory black | .... Animal charcoal, finely ground. |
Jewellers' putty | ... Oxide of tin. |
King's yellow | Sulphide of arsenic, finely ground. |
Laughing gas | Nitrogen monoxide. |
Lime .... | .... Calcium oxide. |
Lunar caustic | Silver nitrate. |
Milk of lime .... | ... Dilute calcium hydrate. |
Mispickel | .... Arsenical iron pyrites. |
Mosaic gold .... | .... Bisulphide of tin. |
Muriatic acid | Hydrochloric acid. |
Muriate of lime | Calcium chloride. |
Nitre .... | Potassium nitrate. |
Oil of vitriol | Sulphuric acid, Sp. Gr. 1.824. |
Oil of turpentine ........ | .... The essential oil in turpentine. |
Orpiment | .... Arsenious sulphide |
Pearl-ash | Pure potassium carbonate. |
Plaster of Paris | .... Gypsum. |
Potash | Potassium oxide. |
Powder of Algarolh. | .... Antimonious oxy-chloride. |
Popular Names. | Chemical Names. |
Purple of Cassius | .... Double stannate of gold and tin. |
Quick lime .... | .... Burned lime (see Lime). |
Realgar .... ........ | Sulphide of arsenic. |
Red lead | .... Lead oxide. |
Royal water ........ | Aqua regia (see above). |
Salammoniac | .... Ammonium chloride. |
Salt | .... Sodium chloride. |
Salt cake ............ | .... Sodium sulphate. |
Saltpetre | .... Potassium nitrate. |
Salt of tartar | .... Potassium carbonate. |
Salts of lemon | .... Acid oxalate of potassium. |
Slaked lime........ | .... Calcium hydrate. |
Soda, washing | Sodium carbonate (hydrate). |
Spirits of salts | Hydrochloric acid. |
Spirits of wine | Essential part of methylated spirit |
Sugar of lead | .... Lead acetate. |
Tartar emetic | .... Antimonyl potassium tartrate. |
Train oil | .... Whale oil. |
Verdegris | .... Basic acetate of copper. |
Vermilion | .... Sulphide of mercury. |
Vinegar | Dilute acetic acid. |
Vitriol, blue | .... Copper sulphate. |
Vitriol, green | Iron sulphate. |
Vitriol, white | .... Zinc sulphate. |
Volatile alkali ........ | Ammonia. |
Water glass | Sodium silicate |
Weldon mud ........ | Manganese dioxide. |
White precipitate .... | Ammonium chloride. |
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