JOURNAL 



OF 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



AND 



THE ARTS. 



MARCH, 1813, 



ftSTT"~r ■ .'V " " — » 



ARTICLE I. 



An explanatory Statement of the Notions or Principles upon 

 which the systematic Arrangement is founded, ivhich was 

 adopted as the Basis of an Essay on Chemical Nomenclature. 

 By Professor J. Beb melius. 



(Continued from p. 146.) 



IN the explanation of these phenomena, there is a circum- Oxigen alone 

 stance which confounds us more than all the others, viz. P osscs ^ s * hso ' 

 I'jte and inva- 



that there is only one body, that is to say oxigen, which r i a b!e electro- 

 possesses absolute and invariable electro-chemical characters, chemical cha- 



racters. 

 All the others, while they manifest a fixed and determinate re- 

 lation with regard to oxigen, vary with regard to each other. 

 Sulphur, for example, is positive with regard to oxigen, but is 

 negative with regard to the metals j arsenic is positive with 

 regard to oxigen and to sulphur, but it is negative with regard 

 to the other metals • silver is positive with regard to oxigen, 

 sulphur, and arsenic, but is negative with regard to most of the 

 metals. 



[The author here subjoins the following annotation, which, 

 on account of its extent, I have printed in the body of the 

 page.-W. N.] 



Though it may, perhaps, be too early for \& to adopt any Theory of 

 notions respecting this difficult subject, I shall here offer a con- electro-che- 

 Vol. XXXIV.—No. 158. M jecture ""^ 



