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‘BINARY COMPOUNDS OF THE OTHER METALLOIDS WITH ELECTRO- 
NEGATIVE METALS, 
As the phosphurets, vw bowheia sateen siliciurets, arseniurets, and 
_antimoniurets, rarely combine with each other, their nomenclature 
may be reduced to a siinalés expression “of the atomic constitution of 
the compounds. Thus we may say, carburet, bicarburet, tricarbu- 
ret of iron; arseniuret, biarseniuret of nickel. 
COMBINATIONS OF THE ELECTRO-POSITIVE METALS WITH EACH 
OTHER. 
These compounds are called alloys. "They seldom require the 
application of a specific apne there being but few known 
in which the elements are combined in definite proportions. When 
such occur the termination uret is to be given to that part of the 
name of the alloy, which is derived from the more electro-negative 
onent; as exam mples we may take aururet of silver, triaururet 
of s sits palladiuret of mercury, &c. 
NOMENCLATURE OF THE SALTS. 
The changes which we have made in the nomenclature of the 
bases generally, and especially in the class of oxides, er the for- 
mation of a nomenclature for the salts comparatively easy, and per- 
mit the expression not only of the elements constituting the salt but 
of the state of neutralization of the constituents. 
I divide the salts into two orders. 1st. Amphide salts, composed 
of a base united to an acid, a sulphide, a selenide, or a telluride. 
They are classed according to the amphigen body which they con- 
tain, being divided into oxysalts, sulphosalts,(60) selenisalts, and tellu- 
risalis. Of these four classes, only the first two have been studied. 
2nd. Haloid salts, composed of a halogen body combined with 
an electro-positive metal; such are the salts of chlorine, bromine, 
todine, fluorine and eyanogen. 
A. AMPHIDE SALTS. 
In the nomenclature of the amphide salts, a substantive termina- 
ting in ate, is formed from the name of the acid, sulphide, 
or Sellasle, if the name of the acid, sulphide, &c. terminate in 7, 
in ite, if this latter terminate in ous. For example, we say, sul- 
bs 
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(60) Dr. Thomson calls these sulphur salts. — of Chemistry, Vol. IT, p. 316. 
System ms Chem, 7th ed. Vol. I, p. 900.)— 
