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of barium, strontium, calcium, magnesium, 281 ; am- 

 monium-amalgam, 265 ; metallic ammonium, 267 ; 

 preparation of boron, 288 



1808. Bakerian Lecture, " New Analytical Researches." 

 Action of potassium on hydrogen chloride, 224 



1810. " Researches on the oxymuriatic acid." Charcoal heated 

 in chlorine, 221 ; chlorine an element, 220 ; composi- 

 tion of hydrogen chloride by volume, 223 ; action of 

 chlorine on sulphuretted hydrogen, 223 ; action of 

 metals on hydrogen chloride, 224 ; metallic chlorides 



as binary compounds, 226 

 1810. Bakerian Lecture, "On 



some of the Combinations of 



oxymuriatic gas and oxygen." The name "chlorine" 

 proposed, 212, 221 ; chlorine an element, 222 : oxygen 

 displaced from lime by chlorine, 227 



1812. Elements of Chemical Philosophy. Fluor Spar, 233 ; 



classification of the elements, 450 ; oxygen and 

 chlorine as supporters of combustion, 450 



1813. "Substances produced in different chemical processes 



on Fluor Spar." 1814 "On the Fluoric Compounds." 

 The name " fluorine," 235 ; fluor spar a compound of 

 metal and fluorine, 235 ; hydrofluoric acid a com- 

 pound of hydrogen and fluorine, 235 ; chlorine an 

 element, 222 



1814. "On a new substance which becomes a violet-coloured 



gas by heat" (dated Paris, Dec. 10, 1813). " Further 

 Experiments and Observations on Iodine" (dated 

 Florence, March 23, 1814). The name iodine, 237 ; 

 iodine an element, 237 ; potassium iodide, 238 



1815. "A solid compound of Iodine and Oxygen," 238 



1816. "On the Analogies between the Undecompounded 



Substances and on the Constitution of Acids." The 

 name "chloride," 218 ; the hydrogen theory of acids, 

 248 



1 8 1 8. On the Safety Lamp, with some Researches on Flame. 



All quotations are from The Collected Works of Sir Humphry 



Davy, 9 Vols., 1840, or from the Alembic Club Reprints (No. 6, 



Decomposition of the Alkalis and Alkaline Earths ; No. 9, The 



Elementary Nature of Chlorine). 



DESCARTES, REN (1596-1650). Kinetic theory of gases, 323 

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1801. Composition of carbonic oxide, 141 ; carbonic oxide 



prepared by the action of charcoal on carbonates, 



141 ; on carbonic anhydride, 142, and on steam, 142 



1813. Iodine, 236; hydriodic acid, 239; metallic iodides, 



228 ; iodine and ammonia. 239 



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