METALLIC ELEMENTS. 



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at or even raised above it, by some disturbing cause which 

 operated in times far back ; so that man is able to examine 

 on the surface parts which he could scarcely dig down to. 



The whole of the earth, its inhabitants, the air which 

 surrounds it, the waters upon its surface, and its vegetable 

 products, are composed of certain substances called elements, 

 combined and united in certain numbers and proportions. 

 The following is a list of all known : 



Aluminium 

 Antimony 

 Arsenic 

 Barium . 

 Bismuth 

 Cadmium 

 Calcium 

 Cerium . 

 Chromium . 

 Cobalt . 

 Copper 

 Didymium 

 Donarium . 

 Erbium . 

 Glucinium 

 Gold 



Ilmenium . 

 Iridium . 

 Iron . 

 Lanthanium . 

 Lead . 

 Lithium 

 Magnesium 

 Manganese 

 Mercury 

 Molybdenum . 



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METALLIC ELEMENTS. 



. 137 Nickel 



. . 12'9 Niobium 



. 75 Norium 



. . 68'5 Osmium .... 



. 21-3 Palladium . 



. . 56 Pelopium * 



. 20 Platinum 987 



. . 47 Potassium 39'2 



. 267 Rhodium 52'2 



. . 29'5 Ruthenium 52'2 



. 317 Silicon 213 



. . * Silver 108'1 



. * Sodium 23 



. . * Strontium . . . . . 43'8 



. * Tantalium 184 



. . 197 Tellurium 64'2 



. * Terbinum * 



. . 99 Thorium 59'6 



.23 Tin 59 



. . * Titanium 25 



. 1037 Tungsten 95 



. . 6'5 Uranium 60 



. 12-2 Vanadium 68'6 



. . 27'6 Yttrium 32'2 



. 100 Zinc 32'6 



. . 46 Zirconium . . ; . . 22 - 4 



NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS. 



Boron 10'9 



Bromine 80 



Carbon 6 



Chlorine 35 



Fluorine 18'9 



Hydrogen 1 



Iodine 127'1 



Nitrogen 14 



Oxygen 8 



Phosphorus 32 



Sulphur 16 



Selenium 39'5 



