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Author: Woodhouse, James, 1770-1809.
Title: The young chemist's pocket companion; connected with a portable laboratory. Containing a philosophical apparatus, and a great number of chemical agents; by which any person may perform an endless variety of amusing and instructing experiments; intended to promote the cultivation of the science of chemistry. / By James Woodhouse, M.D. Professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, &c. ; [Two lines from Priestly]
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Print source: The young chemist's pocket companion; connected with a portable laboratory. Containing a philosophical apparatus, and a great number of chemical agents; by which any person may perform an endless variety of amusing and instructing experiments; intended to promote the cultivation of the science of chemistry. / By James Woodhouse, M.D. Professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, &c. ; [Two lines from Priestly]
Woodhouse, James, 1770-1809.
Philadelphia:: Printed by J.H. Oswald, no. 179, South Second-Street., 1797.
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Chemistry -- Experiments.
Advertisements -- Lectures and lecturing.
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INTRODUCTION.
THE Young Chemist's Pocket Companion.
Of Hydrogenous Gas, or inflammable Air.
EXPERIMENT I.
EXPERIMENT II.
EXPERIMENT III.
EXPERIMENT IV.
Of Oxigenous Gas, called also Pure, Vital, Dephlogisticated, Fire and Empyreal Air.
EXPERIMENT V.
EXPERIMENT VI.
Of Azotic or Nitrogene Gas,—Mephitic or Phlogisticated Air.
EXPERIMENT VII.
EXPERIMENT VIII.
EXPERIMENT IX.
Of Alkalis.
Of Pot-ash.
EXPERIMENT X.
EXPERIMENT XI.
Of Soda, Mineral, or Fossil Alkali.
Of Ammoniac, the Volatile Alkali, or Alka|line Gas.
EXPERIMENT XII.
EXPERIMENT XIII.
EXPERIMENT XIV.
EXPERIMENT XV.
EXPERIMENT XVI.
EXPERIMENT XVII.
EXPERIMENT XVIII.
EXPERIMENT XIX.
EXPERIMENT XX.
EXPERIMENT XXI.
EXPERIMENT XXII.
Of Acids.
EXPERIMENT XXIII.
EXPERIMENT XXIV.
EXPERIMENT XXV.
EXPERIMENT XXVI.
EXPERIMENT XXVII.
EXPERIMENT XXVIII.
Of the Carbonic Acid, called also the Creta|ceous Acid, Acid of Chalk and Fixed Air.
EXPERIMENT XXIX.
EXPERIMENT XXX.
EXPERIMENT XXXI.
Of the Sulphuric or Vitriolic Acid, or the Oil of Vitriol.
EXPERIMENT XXXII.
EXPERIMENT XXXIII.
EXPERIMENT XXXIV.
EXPERIMENT XXXV.
Of Nitric Acid, or Aqua Fortis.
EXPERIMENT XXXVI.
EXPERIMENT XXXVII.
EXPERIMENT XXXVIII.
EXPERIMENT XXXIX.
EXPERIMENT XL.
Of Nitrate of Pot-ash, Nitre or Salt-petre.
EXPERIMENT XLI.
EXPERIMENT XLII.
EXPERIMENT XLIII.
Of the Muriatic, or Marine Acid, called also the Spirit of Salt.
EXPERIMENT XLIV.
EXPERIMENT XLV.
EXPERIMENT XLVI.
EXPERIMENT XLVII.
Of the Oxalic Acid, or Acid of Sugar.
EXPERIMENT XLVIII.
EXPERIMENT XLIX.
Of Lime.
EXPERIMENT L.
EXPERIMENT LI.
Of Barytes, or Ponderous Earth.
EXPERIMENT LII.
Of Magnesia.
EXPERIMENT LIII.
EXPERIMENT LIV.
EXPERIMENT LV.
Of Alumine, Pure Clay, or Argillaceous Earth.
EXPERIMENT LVI.
EXPERIMENT LVII.
EXPERIMENT LVIII.
Of Zinc.
EXPERIMENT LIX.
EXPERIMENT LX.
EXPERIMENT LXI.
Of Lead.
EXPERIMENT LXII.
EXPERIMENT LXIII.
EXPERIMENT LXIV.
EXPERIMENT LXV.
Of Iron.
EXPERIMENT LXVI.
EXPERIMENT LXVII.
EXPERIMENT LXVIII.
EXPERIMENT LXIX.
EXPERIMENT LXX.
EXPERIMENT LXXI.
EXPERIMENT LXXII.
EXPERIMENT LXXIII.
EXPERIMENT LXXIV.
EXPERIMENT LXXV.
EXPERIMENT LXXVI.
EXPERIMENT LXXVII.
EXPERIMENT LXXVIII.
EXPERIMENT LXXIX.
EXPERIMENT LXXX.
EXPERIMENT LXXXI.
Of Copper.
EXPERIMENT LXXXII.
EXPERIMENT LXXXIII.
EXPERIMENT LXXXIV.
EXPERIMENT LXXXV.
EXPERIMENT LXXXVI.
EXPERIMENT LXXXVII.
EXPERIMENT LXXXVIII.
Of Mercury.
EXPERIMENT LXXXIX.
EXPERIMENT XC.
EXPERIMENT XCI.
EXPERIMENT XCII.
EXPERIMENT XCIII.
EXPERIMENT XCIV.
Of Silver.
EXPERIMENT XCV.
EXPERIMENT XCVI.
EXPERIMENT XCVII.
EXPERIMENT XCVIII.
EXPERIMENT XCIX.
EXPERIMENT C.
Dr. Woodhouse's Lectures on Chemistry. Commence on the first Tuesday in November of every Year, in the City of Philadelphia, and end on the last Day of February.