^g2 ^^ T"^' MURIATIC ACII3 IN ITS DIFFERENT STATE*. 



hidrogen for its basid, and oximuriatic acid for its acidifying 

 principle. And the phosphoric subliinate'as having phos- 

 phorus for its basis, and oximuriatic acid for its acidifying 

 matter. And Libavius's liquor, and the compounds of 

 arsenic with oximuriatic acid, may be regarded as analogous 

 bodies. The combinations of oximuriatic acid with lead, 

 silver, mercury, potassium, and sodium, in this view wrould 

 be considered as a class of bodies related more to oxides 

 than acids, in their powers of attraction. 

 Chemical no^ It is needless to take up the time of this learned society 



menclature re- by dwelling npon the imperfection of the modern nomen- 



quires a ma- . 



tericd change, clature of these substances. It is m many cases conacctcd 



with false ideas of their nature and composition, and in a 

 more advanced state of the inquiry it will be necessary for 

 the progress of science, that it should undergo material 

 alterations. 

 Compounds of It is extremely probable, that there are many combina- 

 w?huiflamma-*'""^ °^ ^^^ oximuriatic acid with inflammable bodies,' 

 ble substances, -which have not yet been investigated. With phosphorus 

 it seems capable of combining in at least three proportions; 

 the phosphuretted muriatic acid of Gay-Lussac and Thenard 

 is the compound containing the maximuni of phosphorus. 

 The crystalline phosphoric sublimate, and the liquor formed 

 by the combustion of phosphorus in oximuriatic acid gas, 

 disengage no phosphorus by the action of water; the subli- 

 mate, as I have already mentioned, affords phosphoric and 

 muriatic acid; and the liquid, I believe, only phosphorous 

 acid and muriatic acid. 



The sublimate from the boracic basis gives, I believe, 

 only boracic and muriatic acid, and may be regarded as 

 boracium acidified by oximuriatic acid. 

 Their Jecom- It is evident, that, whenever an oximuriatic combination 



position by jg decomposed by water, the oxide, or acid, or alkali, or 

 ■water a clew i j ^ > / 7 



to the porpor- oxidated body formed, must be in the same proportion as 



tions of ele- ^^ muriatic acid gas, as the oxigen and hidrogen must bear 



ments ni ox- , , , 



kief, acids, and the same relation to each other; and experiments upon 



alkaline earths. tjjggQ compounds will probably afford simple modes of 



ascertaining the proportions of the elements in the different 



oxides, acids, and alkaline earths. 



If 



