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A Reissue of 



THE CHEMISTRY OP THE SEVERAL NATURAL 

 AND ARTIFICIAL HETEROGENEOUS COM- 

 POUNDS USED IN MANUFACTURING POR- 

 CELAIN, GLASS AND POTTERY. By SIMEON SHAW. 



(Originally published in 1837.) 750 pp. 1900. Price 14s. ; India and 

 Colonies, 15s. ; Other Countries, 16s. 6d. ; strictly net, post free. 



Contents. 



PART I., ANALYSIS AND MATERIALS. Chapters I., Introduction : Laboratory and 

 Apparatus: Elements: Combinative Potencies, Manipulative Processes for Analysis and 

 Reagents, Pulverisation, Blow-pipe Analysis, Humid Analysis, Preparatory Manipulations, 

 General Analytic Processes, Compounds Soluble in Water, Compounds Soluble only in Acids, 

 Compounds (Mixed) Soluble in Water, Compounds (Mixed) Soluble in Acids, Compounds 

 (Mixed) Insoluble, Particular Analytic Processes. 1 1., Temperature : Coal, Steam Heat for 

 Printers' Stoves. III., Acids and Alkalies: Boracic Acid, Muriatic Acid, Nitric Acid, Sul- 

 phuric Acid, Potash, Soda, Lithia, Calculation of Chemical Separations. IV., The Earths : 

 Alumine, Clays, Silica, Flint, Lime, Plaster of Paris, Magnesia, Barytes, Felspar, Grauen (or 

 China Stone), China Clay, Chert. V., Vletals : Reciprocal Combinative Potencies of the Metals, 

 Antimony, Arsenic, Chromium, Green Oxide, Cobalt, Chromic Acid, Humid Separation of 

 Nickel from Cobalt, Arsenite of Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Iron, Lead, Manganese, Platinum, Silver, 



PART II., SYNTHESIS AND COMPOUNDS. Chapters I., Sketch of the Origin and 

 Progress of the Art. II., Science of Mixing : Scientific Principles of the Manufacture, Com- 

 binative Potencies of the Earths. III., Bodies: Porcelain Hard, Porcelain Fritted Bodies, 

 Porcelain Raw Bodies, Porcelain Soft, Fritted Bodies, Raw Bodies, Stone Bodies, Ironstone, 

 Dry Bodies, Chemical Utensils, Fritted Jasper, Fritted Pearl, Fritted Drab, Raw Chemical 

 Utensils, Raw Stone, Raw Jasper, Raw Pearl, Raw Mortar, Raw Drab, Raw Brown, Raw Fawn, 

 Raw Cane, Raw Red Porous, Raw Egyptian, Earthenware, Queen's Ware, Cream Colour, Blue 

 and Fancy Printed, Dipped and Mocha, Chalky, Rings, Stilts, etc. IV., Glazes : Porcelain 

 Hard Fritted, Porcelain Soft Fritted, Porcelain Soft Raw, Cream Colour Porcelain, Blue 

 Printed Porcelain, Fritted Glazes, Analysis of Fritt, Analysis of Glaze, Coloured Glazes, Dips, 

 Smears and Washes; Glasses: Flint Glass, Coloured Glasses, Artificial Garnet, Artificial 

 Emerald, Artificial Amethyst, Artificial Sapphire, Artificial Opal, Plate Glass, Crown Glass, 

 Broad Glass, Bottle Glass, Phosphoric Glass, British Steel Glass, Glass-Staining and Painting, 

 Engraving on Glass, Dr. Faraday's Experiments. V., Colours : Colour Making, Fluxes or 

 Solvents, Components of the Colours; Reds, etc., from Gold, Carmine or Rose Colour, 

 Purple, Reds, etc., from Iron, Blues, Yellows, Greens, Blacks, White, Silver for Burnishing, 

 Gold for Burnishing, Printer's Oil, Lustres. 



PART III., TABLES OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHEMICAL SUB- 

 STANCES. Preliminary Remarks, Oxygen (Tables), Sulphur and its Compounds, Nitrogen 

 ditto, Chlorine ditto, Bromine ditto, Iodine ditto, Fluorine ditto, Phosphorous ditto, Boron ditto, 

 Carbon ditto, Hydrogen ditto, Observations, Ammonium and its Compounds (Tables), Thorium 

 ditto, 'Zirconium ditto, Aluminium ditto, Yttrium ditto, Glucinum ditto, Magnesium ditto, 

 Calcium ditto, Strontium ditto, Barium ditto, Lithium ditto, Sodium and its Compounds, 



