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An essay on combustion, with a view to a new art of dying and painting

Chapter 167: TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
By Elizabeth Fulhame
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About This Book

The author presents a systematic series of chemical experiments and arguments about combustion and the reduction of metals, proposing chemical methods to deposit gold, silver, and other metals onto textiles for dyeing, painting, and decorative maps. The essay details procedures involving hydrogen, phosphorus, sulphur and their gaseous compounds, charcoal, light, and acids, examines the oxygenation of combustible bodies, and disputes prevailing phlogiston hypotheses. Practical results, specimens, and applications are described alongside a concluding discussion and a nomenclature that summarise theoretical claims and experimental observations.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text.

Inconsistent hyphenations have been left as is.

The original book used the character ſ (long-form s). This has been changed to the modern s in this eBook.

Footnotes have been renumbered consecutively and moved to the end of the text.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

  • Page 28. “hygrogen” replaced by “hydrogen”.
  • Page 39. Unclear image of potentially “horn” replaced by “both”.
  • Page 48. “theprecipitate” replaced by “the precipitate”.
  • Page 77. “evident manmer” replaced by “evident manner”.
  • Page 84. “CHAPTER III” replaced by “CHAPTER IV”.
  • Page 88. “immediaaely” replaced by “immediately”.
  • Page 106. “is influence” replaced by “its influence”.
  • Page 156. Added full stop after “Exp. 4. Mercury” for consistency.

Errata from the publisher has been applied as described below.

  • Page viii. “ere long” replaced by “erelong”.
  • Page 15. “particles of reduced gold were observed” replaced by “I observed many particles of reduced gold”.
  • Page 17. Removed 3 duplicated lines of text.
  • Page 137. “or by uniting” replaced by “nor by uniting”.
  • Page 163. “and the caloric” replaced by “the caloric”.