Manual of Chemistry: A Guide to Lectures and Laboratory Work for Beginners in Chemistry; A Text-Book Specially Adapted for Students of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Manual of Chemistry: A Guide to Lectures and Laboratory Work for Beginners in Chemistry; A Text-Book Specially Adapted for Students of Medicine, Pharmacy, and DentistrySolid state. Solids are distinguished by a self-subsistent figure. A solid substance forms for itself, as it were, a casing in which its smallest particles' are enclosed. The question arises, by What means are these particles connected, how are they kept together? N 0 other answer can be given, than that the particles themselves attract each other to such an extent that force is necessary to separate them. We see, consequently, that some form of attraction or attractive power is acting be tween the particles Of a solid mass, and we call this kind of attraction cohesion, to distinguish it from other forms Of attraction.The external appearance or the figure Of a. Solid body is various. It may be an irregular or a natural regular figure. Of these two forms, only the latter is here Of interest, as it includes all the different crystallized substances.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.