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Foundations of chemical-physical science applied to the formation of bodies and to the phenomena of Nature etc. Venice 1795. 8vo. original: "Fondamenti della ſcienza chimico fiſica applicati alla formazione de' corpi ed a' fenomeni della Natura etc. Venez. 1795. 8." This is a major work by Vincenzo Dandolo, who was instrumental in spreading Lavoisier’s "new chemistry" in Italy.) says that no natural scientist has yet precisely discovered the simple combustible substances that are combined with the acid base-material: for the affinity between the inflammable essence and the oxygen is too great; and this result, which has also emerged from the chemical efforts of the Germans so far, guarantees that the important question could not be answered satisfactorily:

"Can the metals absorb such a quantity of
"oxygen that they thereby become
"true acids?"

It is well known that no chemist original: "Scheidekünstler," literally a "separation artist." This term reflects the early view of chemistry as the art of separating and refining substances. was yet in a position to transform gold, mercury, bismuth, etc., into acid;

"but the observations," says Dandolo, "that
"one has made during many treatments of these
"bodies, as well as the phenomena which
"molybdena original: "Waſſerblei." While today this can mean graphite, in 18th-century chemistry it specifically referred to the mineral from which molybdenum was derived., arsenic, tungsten original: "Wolfram." etc.
"present under certain circumstances, leave the possibil—