In 1810 Davy again resumed the examination of the subject, and in July of that year read a paper to the Royal Society, to prove that chlorine is a simple substance, and that muriatic acid is a compound of chlorine and hydrogen.
Next year Davy took up the subject and concluded from his experiments that chlorine is a simple substance, that muriatic acid is a compound of chlorine and hydrogen, and hyper-oxymuriatic acid of chlorine and oxygen.
It passed with him for a simple substance; but what he did ascertain enabled him to explain the action of nitric acid on metals.
As charcoal has not been hitherto decomposed, it must, in the present state of our knowledge, be considered as a simple substance.
Wherefore, in the experiments which form the object of this chapter, we have never employed atmospheric air, which is not a simple substance.
Until very lately, water has always been thought a simple substance, insomuch that the older chemists considered it as an element.
Sulphur has hitherto been considered as a simple substance; but Sir H.
But in its gaseous state it cannot be called a simple substance, since it is combined with heat and electricity?
If the substance, the subject of extension is simple, the result will be a simple substance determined or modified by extension, a simple extended substance, which is a contradiction.
Abstracting the testimony of the internal sense, and looking only at the nature of the internal phenomena, it may be demonstrated that the subject of them is a simple substance.
Therefore it is repugnant for a simple substance to have extension for one of its modifications; therefore Spinosa's system is absurd.
But he is wrong in thinking that a soul, that a simple substance, can be produced naturally.
The principal point developed by Leibniz is the richness of content which, according to him, is to be found in each 'simple substance'.
The rationalists sought to deduce the whole body of rational psychology from the a priori conception of the soul as a simple substance, and of rational theology from the a priori conception of God as the all-perfect Being.
It must not be interpreted as signifying that the self is a simple substance.
But this is not tantamount to declaring that the thinking Ego is a simple substance- for this would be a synthetical proposition.
The dogma of the immortality of the soul assumes that the soul is a simple substance, a spirit; but I will always ask, what is a spirit?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "simple substance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
