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Excerpt from Elements of Chemical Philosophy: As Regards the Laws of Chemical Changes; Undecompounded Bodies and Their Primary Combinations
The only processes which can be called chemical, known to the civilized nations of antiquity, belonged to certain arts, such as metal lurgy, dyeing, and the manufacture of glass or porcelain; but these processes appear to have been independent of each othe1, pursued in the workshop alone, and unconnected with general knowledge.
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