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INDEX. 



ORG 



SYN 



Organic proximate principles, 22 

 Oxalate of ammonia, dehydration of, 



29 

 Oxalic acid, oxidation of, 132 



series, 36 



synthesis of, 92 



Oxalurate of calcium, in urine, 135 

 Oxidation by acids, 1 1 7 



by alkalies, 157 



by fused potash, 117 



by peroxides, 147 



slow or rapid, 102 



Oxygen, evolution of, by plants, 50 



"PEROXIDES, formation of, 148 

 JL oxidation by, 147 



reduction of, 147 

 Phenol in urine, 123 



Plant life, chemical actions of, 63 

 Plants, ammonia, a pabulum for, 52 



evolution of oxygen by, 50 

 Platinum wire, ignition of, 73 

 Polymerone molecules, 30 



allophan, a, 43 



kreatine, a, 44 



methylamine, a, 45 



taurine, a, 43 



uric acid, a, 128 

 Polymerones, the bile acids, 44 



examples of, 43 

 Populin, composition of, 25 



residues of, 27 



Potash, oxidation by fused, 117 

 Processes, animal and vegetable, 64 

 Products and educts, 22 



formation of vegetable, 79 

 Propionic group, 3 1 

 Proximate principles, organic, 22 

 Prussic acid, production of, 86 



vital origin of? 58 



Pseudo-uric acid, production of, 140 



Q 



UANTITY of heat, 101 



RATIO of urea to carbonic acid, 

 99 



Reduction of peroxides, 147 

 Residues, doctrine of, 26 



SALICIC ACID, synthesis of, 

 94 



compounds, 121 

 Salicin, composition of, 25 



hydration of, 26 



residues of, 26 

 Saligenin, reaction of, 25 

 Salisuric acid in urine, 123 

 Sarcosine, synthesis of, 91 

 Series of aromatic acids, 34 

 hydrocarbons, 35 



carbonic acid, 36 



of fatty acids, 3 1 



diatomic, 36 



alcohols, 35 



aldehydes, 35 



oxalic acid, 36 

 Spermaceti, a diamerone, 41 

 Statical chemistry, 3 

 Steam-engine, principle of, 68 

 Sub-oxidised tissue-products, 108 

 Succinic acid, synthesis of, 92 

 Sugar of gelatin, 21 



Sugar, vital origin of? 57 

 Syntheses, continuous, 81 

 Synthesis by carbonic oxide, 83 



of acetic acid, 59, 91 



acetylene, 88 



alcohol, 89 



aniline, 94 



benzoic acid, 94 



butyric acid, 92 



coal-tar colours, 95 



ethyl ene, 88 



gallic acid, 94 



glycerin, 92 



glycocine, 91 



grape sugar? 93 



lactic acid, 92 



malic acid, 92 



oxalic acid, 92 



salicic acid, 94 



sarcosine, 91 



succinic acid, 92 



tartaric acid, 92 



taurine, 90 



valeric acid, 93 



Synthetic chemistry, economics of, 

 96 



results of, 95 



Synthetic methods, general, 81 



plasticity of alcohols, 82 



