Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Chemistry Embracing the Metals and Elements Which Are Not Metallic
Some substances were named after the stars and planets, as lunar caustic, nitrate of silver; mercury, quicksilver. Thus we see the names of most substances were given in an unsystematic manner.
To the elements recently discovered some attempt has been made to give names with like terminations to those elements which resemble one another. Thus three elements ending in on, and resembling each other in properties in some respects, are carbon', boron, and silicon.
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