Chemical Nomenclature of Berzelius. 259 
oe oe pees Peroxide of calcium. 
(strontiana.) Protoxide of strontium, (strontia.) 
ascend superoxide. Peroxide of strontium. 
Barytic oxide, (baryta.) Sicord - pee. 
Barytic superoxide. erox f bar 
Lithic oxide, (lithina.)() Oxide of lithium, (lithia. ) 
dic suboxide.(3. 
Sodic oxide, (soda.) Protoxide of sodium. 
Sodic superoxide. Peroxide of sodium. 
Potassic suboxide. 
Potassic oxide, (potassa.) Protoxide of potassium. 
Potassic superoxide. Peroxide of potassium. 
COMBINATIONS OF NITROGEN. 
Ammonia, - — nitruret.) (36) 
Ammonium, (tetrahydric nitruret.) 
Cyanogen, (carbonic nitruret.) (37) 
(33) Obtained as a aetna td dropping lime water slowly into a solution of the 
deutoxide of hydrogen 
. (84 French peal: has stron p the an in 
its combination, it cannot with poco be ate y strontia,—Trans. 
b) The remarks in note 33 apply also to this ¢; 
(35) The oo of both sodium mapa. potassium, yanked. = ne as sub- 
e metals 
with their protox 
n ly: mtact with mercury. He sup- 
poses that when a solution of ammonia is cap sed to galvanic action, in contact with 
mercury, water is decomposed; the oxygen pte while the hydrogen converts 
the ammonia into a metal, ammonium. This metal may, therefore, be represented 
. ene 
an 
sed to the action of water, out of the galyanic circuit, the ammonia combines with 
the water, liberating hydrogen gas. This view Berzelius s supports by a reference 
to the experi s ich m: am. 
being admitted into a Torricellian vacuum was i into amm , hydrogen 
and cad the hydrogen, however, was less in bulk than perio by: the 
theo: 
Am: , being composed of one volume of nitrogen and three volumes of hy- 
drigts, to receives the name of trihydric nitruret, while the emmonium, a ne~, 
by ammonia with an additional volume of hydrogen, is called 
Trans. 
(837) The English chemists — cyanogen to be a bicarburet of nitrogen, 
composed of two volumes of the vapor of carbon and one volume of nitrogen, con- 
densed into one volume. This jo eh is inferred from the fact that one volume 
