Excerpt from A Manual of Chemistry, on the Basis of Dr. Turner's Elements of Chemistry: Containing, in a Condensed Form, All the Most Important Facts and Principles of the Science We understand by the action of the ultimate atoms of mat ter, the effect of a cause which is unknown to us, but which tends to unite the particles of one body to those of another, or to separate these particles in order to combine them with those of other bodies either in another order or in other pro portions. This force, the cause of which is entirely unknown, but whose effects are so sensible, forms the foundation of the science of chemistry, and has been called molecular attraction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.