Binary Theory
in chemistry, a hypothesis proposed by Davy to reduce the haloid salts (as NaCl) and the oxygen salts (as NaNO3) to the same type, the monad Cl' being replaced by the monad radical containing oxygen (NO₂)'.
Acids are hydrogen salts, as HCl, or H (NO₂)'. A radical is only part of a molecule which can unite with or replace for atomicity. Thus the dyad radical an element or another radical, atomicity (SO₂)" )" can replace two monad radicals, (NO₂)', as in the equation Pb" (NO3)2 + Mg" (SO4)" Pb" (SO₂)" + Mg" = (NO3)2. A radical cannot exist in a separate state.
BINGEN (bing'en), a German town in the province of Rhine-Hesse, Hesse; on the left bank of the Rhine, and the right of the Nahe. It is of considerable historical interest, containing the ruins of the Castle of Klopp, blown up by the French in 1689; the remains of a 12th century monastery; and the tower where BINGHAM Hatto, Archbishop of Mainz, is said to have been eaten alive by mice in the 10th century. A statue of "Germania," heroic size, has been erected here to commemorate the German victories of 1870-1871. Pop. about 9,950.