ELEMENTS
OF
CHEMISTRY.
PART I.
Of the Formation and Decomposition of Aeriform Fluids—of the Combustion of Simple Bodies—and the Formation of Acids.
CHAP I.
Of the Combinations of Caloric, and the Formation of Elastic Aëriform Fluids.
THAT every body, whether solid or fluid, is augmented in all its dimensions by any increase of its sensible heat, was long ago fully established as a physical axiom, or universal proposition, by the celebrated Boerhaave. Such facts as have been adduced for controverting the
