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In anticipation of an inquiry as to the feasibility of applying the new 

 nomenclature to all known chemical bodies, it may be here observed that new 

 names have been framed for a large majority of the compounds enumerated 

 in STOKER'S Dictionary of Solubilities, as well as for many modifications de- 

 scribed in DANA'S Mineralogy ; yet as these names form a lexicon of chemical 

 compounds, they cannot properly be applied to the large class about the 

 composition of which there is still a wide diversity of opinion, particularly to 

 those treated of in zoochemistry, from whose percentage-analysis no satisfac- 

 tory formulae have thus far been deduced. No objection can be made, however, 

 to the application of new terms to those compounds now designated only by 

 symbols, or to new bodies not yet named ; such, for example, as LOTV^'S new 

 combination of hydrogen with the sesquisulphide of carbon, aleris. 



Should the proposed system be favorably received, the most effectual mode 

 of bringing it into general use would be to add to the old name of a body 

 the new name in italics, in lieu of the ordinary symbols which now involve 

 the use of very small figures not always read with facility. These symbols 

 have been aptly termed the short-hand of the chemist ; yet in a large majority 

 of instances, the corresponding new names contain a smaller number of syl- 

 lables; for example, C0 2 is pronounced with three syllables, and garet with 

 two ; H 2 with three syllables, elat with two; HO with two, alt with one ; 

 COC1 with five, and garted with two. 



Those objecting to the use of chemical equations, will observe how readily 

 the new names may be substituted for such expressions by the following 

 examples : 



