250 Chemical Nomenclature of Berzelius. 
SIMPLE SUBSTANCES. 
I. Meratuors.(1) (Simple non metallic bodies, all electro- 
negative.) 
Oxygen. Sulphur. ” Bromine. . Carbon. 
Hydrogen. Phosphorus. Todine. _» Boron. 
Nitrogen. . Chlorine. Fluorine. Silicium. 
Il. Evectro-Necative Merats. 
Selenium. Molybdenum. Tellurium. 
Arsenic. Tungsten. * ‘Titanium. 
Chromium. Antimony. Tantalum.(2) 
Il. Execrro-Posrrive Merats. 
Gold. Copper. Cobalt. _ Magnesium. 
Platinum. Uranium. ehiront Calcium. 
Iridium. Bismuth. Manganese. Strontium. 
Osmium. Tin. Cerium. Barium. 
Palladium. Lead. Zirconium. Lithium. 
Rhodium. Cadmium. Yttrium. Sodium. 
Silver. Zinc. Glucinium. Potassium. 
Mercury. Nickel. Aluminium. 
NOMENCLATURE OF BINARY COMPOUNDS. 
_ The names of the binary combinations are formed by giving to 
one of the components the termination ade, or uret, forming the sub- 
(1) Metalloid, a non-metallic body. On the subject of this class, Berzelius re- 
marks: “certain simple substances, characterized by peculiar and well marked 
properties, are called metals; ethers do not possess these characters. Hence the 
division into metallic and non-metallic bodies; the latter class I call by the name 
of metalloids. This division has a connexion with the chemical and electro-chem- 
ical relations of bodies, since the metalloids, and their combinations with oxygen, 
always tend to the positive pole, and consequently are electro-negative. Many of 
the metals are likewise electro-negative, and if we undertake to draw the line be- 
tween the two classes, it will be found that the distinctive characters are so gradu- 
ally lost, that certain bodies may, with as much propriety, be ranked with the one 
as the other class.” 
This term, metalloid, from its derivation, (uézaAaov, a metal, and «vdos, likeness,) 
would seem to mean a body like a metal, and in this sense there was an attempt 
made to introduce it into chemical nomenclature, to denote the metallic radical of an 
alkali, &c. The sense in which our author has chosen to employ it is exactly the 
reverse of this, and should be well fixed in the memory before proceeding. Re- 
marks in relation to the order in which the substances in this table are arranged, 
will be found in note third.— Trans. 
(2) Better known to the English and American chemist as Columbium.— Trans. 
