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and not bases and their compounds with the metalloids rarely com- 
bine with these neutral salts. I shall call this group halogen(49) 
bodies (or generators of salts.) The nomenclature of their combina- 
tions is analogous to that of the compounds of sulphur. ‘The com- 
_ pound body domuiniactedl cyanogen, belongs to this class. 
Below are some examples of the nomenclature of the compounds 
of the halogen bodies with the metalloids, and with the electro-neg- 
ative metals. 
Sulphurous chloruret. 
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Sulphuric chloruret.(50) Chloride of sulphur. 
Phosphoric chloruret. 
Phosphorous chloride.(51) ‘Protochloride of phosphorus. 
Phosphoric chloride. Perchloride of phosphorus. 
Bromic chloruret.(52) 
Chloruret of iodine.(53) 
Chloruret of cyanogen. 
Carbonous chloruret. 
Carbonic chloruret. Protochloride of carbon. 
Carbonous chloride. Perchloride of carbon. 
. Carbonic oxychloride. Chlorocarbonic acid gas. 
Carbosulphurous oxychloride.(54) 
Boric chloride. Chloride of boron. 
Silicic chloride. Chloride of silicium. 
(49) Halogen; Gas, a salt, and yeryae, I generate. Trans. 
(50) The composition of the sulphuric chloruret, corresponds to that of hypo- 
sulphuric acid; (the composition received before the last examination of the acid 
by Dr. Thomson ;) hence, as Berzelius remarks, the proper name for it would be hy- 
posulphurous chloride. He gives preference to the more brief, but, according to 
his system, inaccurate name of sulphuric chloruret. 
The sulphurous chloruret is obtained by causing the sulphuric chloruret to take 
up an additional equivalent of sulphur.— Trans. 
(51) Phosphorous chloride. When water is decomposed by it, hydrochloric and 
phosphorous acids are formed ; this compound, therefore, is proportional to phosphor- 
ous acid. The phosphoric chloride is proportional to phosphoric acid.— Trans. 
(52) This name is given in the body of the work; the looser appellation, chloru- 
ret of bromine, was to be found in the table.— Trans. 
(53) Chloruret of iodine. When this compound acts upon water, Berzelius states 
that it forms hydrochloric acid and an unknown oxide of iodine; hence, it is not 
proportional to either iodous or jodie acids, and its name, chloruret of iodine, is prop- 
erly given.—Tvrans. 
(54) Carbosulphurous devenionde. A compound of chlorine, oxygen, sulphur and 
carbon; obtained by the action of moist chlorine gas upon sulphuret of carbon. It 
consists, according to the proportions in one hundred parts given by Berzelius, of two 
proportionals of chlorine, two of oxygen, one of sulphur and one of carbon.— Trans. 
