Excerpt from Wells's Principles and Applications of Chemistry; For the Use of Academies, High-Schools, and Colleges: Introducing the Latest Result of Scientific Discovery and Research, and Arranged With Special Reference to the Practical Application of Chemistry to the Arts and Employments of Common Life The forms and combinations of matter seen in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdom of nature, are numberless, yet they are all composed of a very few simple substances or elements. 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.