Edward Hitchcock classroom lecture notes, "Mercury"

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Title:
Edward Hitchcock classroom lecture notes, "Mercury"
Description:
Chemistry lecture notes by Edward Hitchcock primarily discussing certain metals and relating chemistry to the mineral, vegetable, and animal. Hitchcock focuses on mercury, silver, gold, and platinum, listing experiments to perform with these materials, alloys that can be made with them, and different solvents and chlorides of these metals. He then discusses analyzing the chemical makeup of minerals, plant matter, and animal. Topics covered include mineral waters, vegetable gums and resins, sugar, alcohol, putrefaction, gelatin, albumen, urea, and blood, among others.
Creator:
Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864
Date:
[1826–1855]
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Lecture notes
Location:
Amherst College Archives & Special Collections
Box 10 Folder 7 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers
Subjects:
Hitchcock, Edward--1793-1864--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Chemistry--Study and teaching (Higher)--Massachusetts--Amherst
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampshire (county) > Amherst
Extent:
1 item (94 pages) ; 22 cm
Link to Item:
http://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:290479
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Place of origin:
Amherst (Mass.)
Language:
English
Notes (date):
The notes are undated. Dates provided are taken from the dates of the series.
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Pagination includes blanks pages which were not digitized.