Cyclopedia of the Useful Arts: Including Agriculture Architecture Domestic Economy Engineering Machinery Manufactures Mining Photogenic and Telegraphic Art; Being an Exposition of Their and Practice and a Compend of American and European Inventio

Excerpt from Cyclopedia of the Useful Arts: Including Agriculture Architecture Domestic Economy Engineering Machinery Manufactures Mining Photogenic and Telegraphic Art; Being an Exposition of Their and Practice and a Compend of American and European Invention<br><br>Acids. A class of chemical substances remarkable for their sour taste and their readiness to unite with alkalies and earths to form salts: there are many hundred acids distributed in the three kingdoms of nature. With one exception the red den vegetable blue colors as blue ca bage and litmus. Some exist naturally in the mineral animal and vegetable world and some are the result of chemical pro cesses: a few are solid bodies and some gaseous but the greater number are in the li uid form.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.