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INDEX. 



ABEL, memoirs of, 16 



on ballistics, 20, 21 



on explosion of black powder, 31 



on synchronous vibrations. 80 



on deflagrating gun-oottou, 52 



on primings, 59 



on explosions in water, 77 



on explosives, 374, 401 



and gun-cotton, 444 



on hyposulphite, 486 



on final state, powders, 496, 497 



on gulphur etiects on arm?, etc., 



497 



on heat liberation, 509 



on gas liberation, 512 



on blasting, etc,, powders, 514 



ABEL'S glyoxyliu, 433, 445 



powder, 461 



Absorbents, 434 

 Absorption of energy, 2 

 Accelerograph, 21 

 Accel eronieter, 21 

 Accidents at Aspinwall, 431 



at Bouchet, 444 



at Hamburg, 431 



at L'Ecole Poly technique, 518 



at Paris, 518 



, Place de la Sorhonne, 463 



at Rue Be'ranger, 46, 77 



at Parma, 436 



at Quenasr,431 



at St. Denis, 281, 420 



at San Francisco, 431 



at Simmering, 444 



at Stockholm, 431 



at Stowmarket, 444 



on the Thames, 46 



at Vanves, 46 



at Vincennes, 444 



at Wiener Neustadt, 444 



Acetone, 136, 140 



Acetylene, 66, 69, 71, 73, 136, 184, 



227, 269, 301, 385 



Acetylene, heat liberated, 385 

 Acetate of soda, 516 



of ammonia, 318 



Acetates, 127, sqq. 

 Acetylide, 317, 369 

 Acid, organic, 138 

 Aoids, 137 



and salts, 119 



, complex, 317 



, explosive, and salts, 268 



, free, trace of, 423 



, fumes of, 448 



, highly oxygenated, 368, 369 



, medium, 211, 212 



, non -oxygenated, 329 



, strong, 212 



, vapours of, 381 



, weak, 118, 212 



Affinities, chemical, 114 



, thermal balance of, 123 



Agglomeration, 378 



Air, detonation in the open, 14 



, incomplete combustion, 1G 



and transmission, 76, 77 



and the explosive wave, 78, 1 07 



and alkalis, 207 



and nitrogenous compounds, 207 



and oxidation, 211 



and stability, 381 



, combustion by, 390 



and charcoal, 399 



and starch, 399 



and sulphur, 400 



and firearms, 495 



Albumenoids, 217 

 Alcohol, 139,265,494 



, oxidised, 216 



Alcohols and nitric ethers, 279 



, complex, 285 



Aldehyde, 125, 136, 140 



, formation of, 138 



Algae, microscopic, 234 

 Alkali and oxidation, 210, 211 

 Alkaline sulphites, 484-486 

 hyposulphites, 486, 487 



