Chevreul and other chemists have shown, however, that Fourcroy's extractive is not a chemical compound but a heterogeneous mixture, varying in composition with the plant from which it is obtained.
A chemical compound of chlorine with a metal or other basic radical, e.
The conversion of the animal substance (by combination with the poison) into a chemical compound, held together by so powerful a force as to resist the subsequent action of the ordinary causes of decomposition.
We can not ascertain from what simple feelings any of our complex states of mind are generated, as we ascertain the ingredients of a chemical compound, by making it, in its turn, generate them.
The weight of a chemical compound, or of an organized body, is equal to the sum of the weights of the elements which compose it.
A mixture which will destroy micro-organisms and yet will not destroy a living cell certainly shows a fine sense of selection and discrimination not heretofore expected of a combination of chemicals or of a chemical compound.
Phenalgin is not synthetic; it is not a chemical compound; it is not the only ammoniated phenylacetamide, or the only acetanilid mixture containing carbonate of ammonium--and it is most positively toxic.
Well-made bread is a chemical compound, in which the gluten and starch cannot be recognized or separated, as before, by a stream of water.
If such an hypothesis should prove to be the true one, then the problem of explaining life would be a chemical one, for all vital properties would be reducible to the properties of a chemical compound.
Now it might be assumed as an hypothesis that there could be a chemical compound so complex as to possess, among other properties, that of causing the oxidation of food to occur in such a way as to produce assimilation and growth.
This idea of a chemical compound as the basis of all living phenomena gave rise in a short time to a chemical theory of life which was at least tenable, and which accounted for the fundamental properties of life.
But suppose, on the other hand, that we find this simplest bit of living matter is not a chemical compound, but is in itself a complicated machine.
If it were a chemical compound, the ratio of oxygen to nitrogen would not be changed by solution in water.
A chemical compound in the form of a liquid has a definite boiling point.
We cannot ascertain from what simple feelings any of our complex states of mind are generated, as we ascertain the ingredients of a chemical compound, by making it, in its turn, generate them.
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