NOM 
the union of fulphurous acid with potath is a {ulphite of pot- 
th; of nitrous acid with t e fame bafe, a nitrite ; and o 
ase nitrat, phofphat. Since falts, however, may be 
com of different ee of the fame acid and bafe, 
to cai out this, a r provifion is required; and the 
atomic fyttem, pms ae much will be ad under 
the various chemical articles of this work, furnifhes the moft 
correct means of {fupplying the deficiency. According to 
the principles of this do¢trine, bodies can unite only in cer- 
tain definite proportions, anh e by the number of 
1 nites 
with an atom of “tilphorie acid, the produ is a falphat of 
lime ; but if two atoms of bafe be attached to one of acid, 
poe is oo conftituted of one atom of carbonic 
acid, and one of potafh, it will, in conformity with the 
above rule, . denominated a carbonat of petal the cryf- 
tallized variety being a /uper-carbonat. r inftatices 
might be fele&ted, but as a flight nia with the 
principles of the atomic philofophy will be fufficient for 
their arena it will be unneceffary to extend the fubjec 
here. e formacion of falts, when an acid has taken up 
as oe of any particular bafe as it can diffolve, it is i oe 
be /aturated; and the folution containing it is ca 
farted — The word neutral is alfo ufed to at 
fam es; and all falts, the acid and bafe of which 
when 
efpeQing the eee aphy . “Chemie laiguage, there 
is eeu napasigiond of opini By fome authors, the 
ue, and frequastly inconfiftent an 
acknowledged rules for regulating {uch cafes, in words 
Ginlarly derived. The moft common inftances of the prac- 
sae 
f ord. 
fhew this; and cies but the moft fer vile copying of ,the 
original nomenclature could have introduced the praétice 
amongft us. RefpeCing the latter, the common rule, in 
derivations, of rendering the Greek v into Englifh by y, 
juttifies the obje@ion here made. Eftablifhed meted, of 
this fort coe never to be deviated from, except for ver 
ample reafons ; and in the inftance now under remark, ca- 
price alone can have dictated the alteration. 
NCMEN'!'UM, La Mentana, in Ancient eeerely 2 
town of Italy, in Latium. Pliny and Vir = have me 
tioned this town, which gave name to a Rom 
pafled by it from Rome, and joined t 
The ruins of this town occupy a confiderable 
ENY, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 
partment of the Meurthe, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftri& of Nancy; 6 miles E.of Pont 4 Mouffon. The 
= contains 1331, and the canton 154833 aon on 
a territory of 285 kiliometres, in 45 commyn 
I, a town - eee » in the land of hans 3 16 
miles S.E. of Kana 
NOMII, in Arce aay, a mountain of Arcadia, 
on which was a temple confecrated to m od Pan, the 
Nomian, eee e y PanGilies, vill. C. 
A n account of the names of all 
ward II., and returned by them into the exchequer; where 
it is ftill preferve 
NOMINAL Cuaraerers. See CHARA 
NOMINALS, 
an Englifh 
The Now reat dealers in a whence 
they were vulgarly denominated word-feller 
They had the denomination No mminalifte, ecaule, in op- 
pofition to the Realifts, they maintained, ’ that words, not 
things, were the object of dialeCtics. 
This fe& had its firft rife towards the end of the 11th 
The chief of this fe&t, in the 12th century, w n 
called John, who, on account of his logical, fubtilty, was 
called the Sophift, and his principal difciplery were Robert 
of Paris, Rofceline of Compeigne, and Axnoul of Laon. 
Porphyry, in his introduétion to the Ariftotelian logic, 
fays, ‘* Concerning Seetiags and f{pecies, whether they ice a 
real effence, or are barely conceptions of the mind, and if 
they fubfift, whether pee Peas or aia! Sabu whether 
{piritually or only in the objeéts of fenfe, I give He opinion, 
becaufe the fubjet is abftrufe, and requires a larger ‘dif- 
cuffion.”” This point, which Porphyry left undetermined, 
was refumed in the {chools, and the opinion of Ariftotle, 
bodies, nor 
n the 11th century, Rofceline 
‘or 
