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CARBONE.

CONVERSATION VIII.

ON CARBONE.

CAROLINE.

To-day, Mrs. B —, I believe we are to learnthe nature and properties of carbone. Thissub-stance is quite new to me; I never heard it men-tioned before.

MRS. B.

Not so new as you imagine; for carbone isnothing more than charcoal in a state of perfectpurity.

CAROLINE.

But charcoal is made by art, Mrs. B—, and abody consisting of one simple substance cannotbe fabricated ?

MRS. B.

You again confound the idea, of making a sim-ple body, with that of separating it from a com-pound. The chemical processes by which a sim-ple body is obtained in a state of purity, consistin unmaking the compound in which it is con-