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MIXTURE

Volume 14 · 104 words · 1815 Edition

a compound or assemblage of several different bodies in the same mass. Chemical mixture is attended with many phenomena which are never observed in simple mixtures; such as heat, effervescence, &c. To chemical mixture belong the union of acids and alkalies, the amalgamation of metals, solution of gums, &c. and upon it depend many of the principal operations of *Chemistry*. See that article, *puifum*.

**Mixture**, in *Pharmacy*, a medicine which differs from a julep in this respect, that it receives into its composition not only salts, extracts, and other substances dissoluble in water; but also earths, powders, and such substances as cannot be dissolved.