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INDEX 



Boiling point, 106 

 Bolts, 252-258 

 Botany, 1, 2 

 Boyle's Law, 93 

 Brakes, 365 

 Brass, 451 

 Bricks, 160 

 Britannia metal, 455 

 Brittleness, 3 

 Bronze, 453 

 Bronzing, 454 

 B. T. U., 103 

 Buoyancy, 



law of, 78 



stability of ship, 79 

 Burnishing, 277 



Calipers, 10 

 Cams, 59 



listening, 217 

 Carbon, 



compounds of, 158 



forms of, 156 



hydro-, 158 



oxides of, 157 

 Carbureter, 364 

 Case-hardening, 391, 409 

 Castings, 



brass, 381 



clearing, 375 



operations on, 418 



smoothing, 375 



steel, 407 



weights of, 388 

 Cell (See "Electric cells") 

 Cement, 161, 466 

 Center of gravity, 55 

 Centigrade thermometer, 102 

 Centrifugal force, 59-61 

 Centrifugal machine, 60 

 Chains, strength of, 244 

 Chemical action, 131 

 Chemistry, 1, 2, 125-166 



chemical properties, 125 



common industrial substances, 

 156-166 



in industry, 156 



of blast furnace, 372 



principles of, 125-134 



Chimneys, 322 



Chinese ink, 231 



Chisels, 263-266 



Circle, rules concerning, 18 



Circuit-breaker, 202 



Clarification, 143, 145 



Clay, 159 



properties of, 160 

 Coal, chemical properties of, 148 

 Cohesion, 3 

 Color, 119-121, 123 



and light, 119 



theory of, 120 



Combined weights, law of, 131 

 Combustion, 133 



spontaneous, 164 



theory of, 323 

 Commutator, 192 

 Compass, mariner's, 168 

 Compound dynamo, 195 

 Compounds, chemical, 126 



classes of, 135 

 acids, 135 



bases or alkalies, 135 

 salts, 135 

 water, 135 



metallic, 141 

 Compressibility, 4 

 Compression, 234, 235 

 Controller, 200 

 Cope, 376 

 Copper, 442 



chemical properties of, 444 



physical properties of, 443 



refining, by electrolysis, 443 



smelting of, 442-444 

 Core, 193 

 Coulomb, 172 

 Couplings, flange, 285 

 Crucible steel, 406 

 Crystallization, 143, 146 



water of, 147 

 Current, electric, 



direction of, 191 



generation of large amounts, 190 



measurement of strength of, 208 



nature of, 184 



transmission of, 208 



Daniellcell, 175 



