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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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FORM'ULA,'ULE, n. [L.]
A prescribed or set
form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which
anything is to be done, arranged, or said.
A written confession of
faith; a formal statement of foctrines.
A rule or principle
expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal
formula.
A prescription or recipe for
the preparation of a medicinal compound.
A symbolic expression (by
means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution
of a compound.
* Chemical formulæ consist of the abbreviations of the names of the elements, with a small figure at the lower right hand, to denote the number of atoms of each element contained. Empirical formula (Chem.), an expression which gives the simple proportion of the constituents; as, the empirical formula of acetic acid is C2H4O2. -- Graphic formula, Rational formula (Chem.), an expression of the constitution, and in a limited sense of the structure, of a compound, by the grouping of its atoms or radicals; as, a rational formula of acetic acid is CH3.(C:O).OH; -- called also structural formula, constitutional formula, etc. See also the formula of Benzene nucleus, under Benzene. -- Molecular formula (Chem.), a formula indicating the supposed molecular constitution of a compound. | ||||||||