£3^ COMBINATIONS OF OXIMURIATIC GAS AND OXIGEI,, 



silver; st&nnane, Libavius*s liquor; antimonane, butter of 

 antimony ; sulphurane. Dr. Thomson's sulphuretted liquor; 

 and so on for the rest. 



In cases when the. proportion is one quantity of oximuri- 

 atic gas and one of inflammable matter, this nomenclature 

 will be competent to express the class to which the body 

 belongs, and its constitution. In cases when two or more 

 proportions of inflammable matter combine with one of 

 gas; or two or more of gasj with one of inflammable mat- 

 ter; it may be convenient to signify the proportions by|affix« 

 ing vowels before the name, when the inflammable matter 

 predonnnates, and after the name, when the gas is in ex- 

 cess ; and in the order of the alphabet, a signifying two, f, 

 three, i four, and so on. 

 Muriates, The name muriatic acid, as a^pplied to the compound of 



hidrogen and oximuriatic gas, there seems to be no reason 

 for altering. And the compounds of this body with oxides 

 should be characterised in the usual manner, and as the 

 other neutral salts. 



iThus muriate of ammonia and muriate of magnesia are 

 perfectly correct expressions. 



I shall not dwell any longer at present upon thisi subject* 

 --What 1 have advanced, I advance merely as suggestion, 

 and principally for the purpose. pf calling the attention of 

 philosophers %o it*, ^s chemistiy improves, many other 



alterations 



* It maybe eottcei^d, tllat a name mjiy be found for oximuriatic gas 

 in some mt>di|ication of its present appeUation,^vhicb may harmonize with 

 the uew ritw3,and which may yet signify its relation to the muriatic acid, 

 Ruch as demuriatic gas/or oximuric gas 5 but in this case it would be ne- 

 cessavy to call the muriatic acid, hydrogenated muriatic acid, or hydro- 

 muriatic aeid J ana tbe'Ealts which contain it hydrogenated muriates or 

 hydromuriatcs ; atid on such a plan, the compounds of oximuriatic gas 

 miJat be catted demuiiates or oxhnuriates, which I coriceive would create 

 ' more complexity and difficulty in unfolding just ideas on this depart- 

 ment of cheiuical knowledge, than the methods which I have ventured 

 to propose. It may however be right, considering the infant state of 

 ♦he investigation, to sus])end fqr a time the adoption of any new terms 

 for these compounds. It is possible, that oximuriatic gas may be com- 

 pound^ and that this body and oxigeii may contain some common prin- 

 ciple j but at present we have no more right to say that oximuriatic 

 gas potttains oxigen, than to say that tin contains hidrogen j and names 



should 



