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Plate III: Composition of Salts

  • 1856

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Color plate illustrates the composition of salts including the structure of acids and salts as well as the salts of phosphoric acid.

This plate comes from the Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects authored by American scientific writer, editor and lecturer Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887). Popularizing science, Youmans founded Popular Science magazine.

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Youmans, Edward Livingston. “Plate III: Composition of Salts.” In Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects. New York, New York, 1856. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/zr9v9l3.

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