[Ads-l] basicity antedatings

[James Eric Lawson]

OEDO 'basicity', sense 1, 1849.

1842  J.P. Joule *On the Electric Origin of the Heat of Combustion* 
_Annals of electricity, magnetism, and chemistry_ (HathiTrust) 8(April) 
The basicity of salt of lead never descends beyond this limit, however 
great be the excess of white lead.

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1842  M.J. Pélouze *On the Combinations of Lead* _The Chemist_ 
(HathiTrust) 3  The basicity of the salt never descends below this term, 
however great may be the excess of ceruse.

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The following two quotes from the Gerhardt article are reprinted in _The 
Chemical Gazette_ from _Compte Rendus_, 14 Aug 1843:

1843  M. Gerhardt *On the Combinations of Sulphuric Acid with Organic 
Substances* _The Chemical gazette, or, Journal of practical chemistry, 
in all its applications to pharmacy, arts and manufactures_ (HathiTrust) 
1(XXIII)  The basicity of the product presents absolutely the same 
relations; the oxalovinates, the tartrovinates, the camphovinates, are 
monobasic, for they result from the conjugation of a bibasic acid 
(oxalic, camphoric or tartaric) with a neutral body, i. e. the capacity 
of saturation of which is zero.

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1843  M. Gerhardt *On the Combinations of Sulphuric Acid with Organic 
Substances* _The Chemical gazette, or, Journal of practical chemistry, 
in all its applications to pharmacy, arts and manufactures_ (HathTrust) 
1(XXIII)  They moreover offer the means of determining the basicity of 
organic acids, and that also by combining them with sulphuric acid.

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1846  *On Aqua Regia* _American journal of pharmacy and the sciences 
supporting public health_ (HathiTrust) 17(January)  If, however, an 
oxyacid, with compound radical, containing hydrogen, may be produced by 
the oxidating action of hyponitric acid, it may, likewise, happen, that 
by the action of the same, or of that of nitric acid, on other organic 
bodies bases may be formed, acidity and basicity being respectively 
dependent on an opposed tendency, resulting from the various manners in 
which the molecules are arranged, or the circumstances under which this 
grouping takes place, and on those under which these bodies combine, &c.

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1847  *Review of the Organic Chemistry of M. Charles Gerhardt* _The 
American journal of science and arts_ (HathiTrust) 4(November)  The 
number of equivalents of oxygen in an acid bears a certain relation to 
its basicity.

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1847  *Review of the Organic Chemistry of M. Charles Gerhardt* _The 
American journal of science and arts_ (HathiTrust) 4(November)  The 
sulphuric acid is bibasic, and from these facts we deduce the law, that 
the basicity; or capacity of saturation in a coupled salt is always less 
by one than the sum of the basicities of its components.

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-- 
James Eric Lawson

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