Common and/or obsolete names of chemical compounds

SCHRAMMR@WLSVAX.WVNET.EDU
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:30:41 -0400 (EDT)

Several years ago I neeeded to find the modern name of a number of chemical
compounds and consulted the chemistry faculty here at WLSC. They provided
me with two interesting lists which I will reproduce here, in part, for the
list members who are interested. I will try to only include those compounds
which turn up in alternate process printing.

List 1

Quicksilver Mercury
Red Lead Lead Oxide
Quicklime Calcium Oxide
Rochelle Salt Potassium and Sodium Tartrate
Sal Ammonic Ammonium Chloride
Sal Soda Sodium Carbonate (crystalline)
Saltpeter Sodium Nitrate
Salt of Hartshorn Ammonium Carbonate
Slaked Lime Calcium Hydroxide
Soda Ash Sodium Carbonate
Spirit of Hartshorn Ammonium Hydroxide
Spirits of Salt Hydrochloric Acid
Sugar of Lead Lead Acetate
Verdigris Copper Acetate
Washing Soda Sodium Carbonate
Water Glass Sodium Silicate
White Copperas Zinc Sulphate
White Lead Lead Carbonate
White Vitriol Zinc Sulphate
White Zinc Zinc Oxide

List 2

Acid of Sugar Oxalic Acid
Alcali Volatil Ammonium Hydroxide
Aqua Fortis Nitric Acid
Aqua Regia Nitric + Hydrochloric Acid
Blue Copperas,
Blue Stone,
Blue Vitriol Copper Sulfate
Bone Black Animal Charcoal
Brimstone Sulfur
Calomel Mercurous Chloride
Caustic Soda Sodium Hydroxide
Nitre Sodium Nitrate
Corrosive Sublimate Mercuric Chloride
Ferro Prussate Potassium Ferricyanide
Grain Alcohol Ethyl Alcohol
Grain Vitriol Ferrous Sulfate
Iron Perchloride Ferric Chloride
Killed Spirits Zinc Chloride
Lunar Caustic Silver Nitrate
Muratic Acid Hydrochloric Acid
Nordhausen Acid Fuming Sulfuric Acid
Oil of Mars Deliquescent Anhydrous Ferric Chloride
Oil of Vitriol Sulfuric Acid
Oxymurate of Potassium Potassium Chlorate
Pearl Ash Potassium Carbonate
Red Prussiate of Potash Potassium Ferricyanide
Spirits of Wine Ethly Alcohol

As always, I assume you alchemists out there already know these things.

Relax, have a drop of spirits of wine but stay away from spirits of salt.
Don't get any lunar caustic on your fingers. Whtch out for cold meat
with saltpeter in it as you know what that does. ;-)

Bob Schramm