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Experiments on Sulphur and its Decomposition ; by Mr. 

 Curaubau, Professor of Chemistry applicable to tht 

 Aris 9 and Member of several learned Societies *.. 



W HEN bodies we attempt to decompose have expcri- Bodies sup 

 encedno alteration from the chemical agents^ to the action of P osed sin iPk' 

 which they have been subjected, we are obliged to clasa 

 them as simple bodies. The idea of simple substances, how- 

 ever, though there must be such, is but little reconcilable 

 with the different phenomena of decomposition and re- 

 eomposition, which nature is incessantly producing before 

 our eyes, and I have never considered as simple all that are 

 generally deemed so. On the contrary I have always thought, None in the 

 that the substances constituting the mineral kingdom, of ™ meraI Mf\g~ 

 whatever kind, are compounds ; and that the principles of 



* Journal de Physique, July, 1S08, p 12. Mr. Davy's decom- 

 position of sulphur by the Voltaic pile is given at p. 321, of our 

 present number, 



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