Berzelius, Jöns Jakob, Essai sur la théorie des proportions chimiques et sur l' influence chimique de l' électricité

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            couvrent le plus vite ces caractères. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1019" xml:space="preserve">A une tempé-
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            rature très-élevée, au degré de la chaleur blanche,
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            par exemple, cette restauration a lieu quelque-
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            fois tout d’un coup; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1020" xml:space="preserve">mais à une moindre tempéra-
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            ture, comme, par exemple, à celle de la distilla-
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            tion sèche, on voit encore paraître des matières
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            qui, par leur composition et leur polarité, pré-
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            sentent une modification des substances organi-
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            ques, comme, par exemple, le vinaigre, l’huile
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            empyreumatique, l’ammoniaque. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1021" xml:space="preserve">Qui croirait
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            que l’azote, si fortement électro-négatif dans la
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            nature inorganique, ou que son radical présumé,
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            le nitricum, peut produire avec l’hydrogène,
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            qui est si faiblement électro-positif, une combi-
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            naison telle que l’ammoniaque, douée de pro-
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            priétés si électro-positives qu’elle rivalise avec les
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            oxides les plus positifs? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1022" xml:space="preserve">Sans cette modification
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            de polarité électrique, qui n’appartient qu’aux
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            oxides à plusieurs radicaux, et qui n’existe que
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            dans la nature organique ou ses produits, ce
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            phénomène ne serait pas concevable. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1023" xml:space="preserve">C’est pro-
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            bablement à la faveur de cette modification, que
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            le nitricum, combiné avec l’hydrogène, s’amal-
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            game avec le mercure, et présente dans cette
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            combinaison un corps électro - positif analogue
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            aux radicaux métalliques des autres alcalis.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1025" xml:space="preserve">Si le point de vue électro-chimique est juste,
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            il s’ensuit que toute combinaison chimique dé-
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            pend uniquement de deux forces opposées, </s>
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