acidifiable


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a·cid·i·fy

 (ə-sĭd′ə-fī′)
tr. & intr.v. a·cid·i·fied, a·cid·i·fy·ing, a·cid·i·fies
To make or become acid.
a·cid′i·fi′a·ble adj.
a·cid′i·fi·ca′tion (-fĭ-kā′shən) n.
a·cid′i·fi′er n.
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Tables are on: i) specific caloric contained in some substances (after Kirwan); ii) expansions produced by caloric on vital air and on some gases (after Duvernois and de Morveau); iii) binary combinations of oxygen and metallic, non-metallic, oxidizable and acidifiable substances (after Lavoisier); iv) expansive force of the spirit of wine (after Betancourt); v) binary combinations of hydrogen; vi) binary combinations of azote; and vii) combinations of hydrogen and sulphur.
An explanation follows of the acidifiable bases (or acid radicals), a section on metallic substances, and one about the earths (with an appendix).
The first publication of the new chemistry in America in Mercurio Peruano (1792) by Joseph Coquette
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