486 



INDEX 



Meyer's curve, 128 



Microbalance, 77 



Microscope, 99 



Milk sugar, 416 



Moissan, biographic note, 81 



Molecules, size of, 239 



Monazite sands, 274, 279 



Mond gas, 301 



Moore and Webster synthesis of 



formaldehyde, 459 

 Mordants, 327 

 Morphine, 341 

 Mustard oil, 450 



Newlands on atomic weights, 126 

 Newton's atoms, 108 

 Nickel in steel, 265 

 Nickel, metallurgy of, 267 

 Niton, density of, 154 

 Nitrides, 397 

 Nitrocelluloses, 362 

 Nitrogen, 249 



fixation of atmospheric, 393 



waste of, 395 

 Nitroglycerine, 382 

 Nitrolime, 401 

 Nitrous oxide, 335 

 Novocaine, 337 

 Nutrition, 437 



Oil fountains, 285 

 Organic chemistry, 456 

 Origin of life, 462 

 Osmotic pressure, 172 

 Ostwald's Faraday lecture, 227 

 Oxyacetylene flame, 80 

 Oxydases, 452 

 Oxygen, 249 

 Oxyhsemoglobin, 445 

 Oxyhydrogen flame, 80 



Papain, 451 

 Paper from wood, 359 

 Parchment paper, 359 

 Pasteur on fermentation, 48 



on optical properties of crystals, 

 105 



Pepsin, 451 



Perfumes, 342 



Perkin, biographic notice, 478 



Permutit, 257 



Perrin on motion of particles, 233 



Petrol, 280 



Petroleum, composition of, 292 



origin of, 295 



Petroleum in Pennsylvania, 282 



Petroleum in Russia, 283 



in Burma, 285 



Pfeffer's measurements of osmotic 



pressure, 172, 177 

 Phenacetin, 336 

 Phosphorus matches, 70 

 Picric acid, 332, 336, 386 

 Polarimeter, 99 

 Polonium discovered, 143 

 Polypeptides, 428 

 Producer gas, 301 

 Proteins, 424 

 Proust, 424 



Prout's Hypothesis, 161 

 Ptyalin, 451 

 Public analysts, 60 

 Purpurine, 327 

 Pyrophoric alloys, 270 



Quartz glass, 100 



Radium, discovery of, 141 



in earth's crust, 169 



salts, properties of, 144 

 Ramsay biographic notice, 479 



discovery of argon, 135 

 helium, 138 



neon, krypton and xenon, 140 



on atomic weight of radium, 146 



on structure of molecules, 228 



symbol for electrons, 190 



and Gray on radium emanation, 

 153 



Raoult's determinations of freezing 



points, 178 

 Rayleigh, biographic notice, 480 



on density of gases, 133 



on oxidation of nitrogen, 403 



discovery of argon, 137 

 Rcfractometer, 99 



Regnault on density of gases, 133 



Rennet, 451 



Richards, biographic notice, 480 



on compressibility of elements, 

 128, 225 



Roburite, 387 

 Rontgen rays, 117 

 Rosanilines, 316 

 Rubber, 363 



substitutes for, 369 



synthetic, 370 



tapping for, 366 



vulcanisation of, 369 

 Rutherford on radiation from radium, 



etc., 150 



disintegration theory, 153 



