INDEX. 



561 



NOBEL on explosion, 68 1 



on dynamite, 431, 435 



uses Kieselguhr, 436 



on mixtures, 439 



invents blasting gelatin, 441 



NOBLE. See ABEL 



Notes, influence of musical, 82 



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OQIBB on temperature, 61 



on arseniuretted hydrogen, 63, 



on silver hyponitrite, 185 



, combustion vessel, 241 



Organic compounds, forms of, 138 

 Oxalates, 127 



, metallic, 364 



Oxalic acid, 365, 366 



Oxamide, formation of, 258, 259 



Oxidation by nitric acid, 200 



Oxyammonia, 245 



Oxysalts, 127 



formation of solid, 133, 134 



PAMABD on dynamite, 76 

 Panclastite, 375, 397, 549 

 PAPIN on motive power, 396 

 PELIGOT on nitric peroxide, etc., 190, 



196 



PELLET on vibrations, 80, 82 

 PELOUZE on nitric compounds, 444 

 Perchlorates, 351 

 Perchloric acid, 351 



ethers, 474 



Pernitro-cellulose, 286 



Phosphates, 126 



Phosphorus, 64 



Picrate, potassium, 463, 465 



Picrates, 127, 277, 461 



Picric acid, 277, 471 



PIOBERT on combustion of powder, 47- 



49, 512 



on gun-cotton and powder, 449 



, empirical powder-ratio of, 452 



, Treatise of, 477 



PIBIA on the Solfatara, 393 



PLAATS, VAN DEB, on silver hypo- 



nitrite, 185 



Porous bodies, function of, 218 

 Potassium carbonate and sulphurous 



acid, 483 



chlorate, 407, 520-522 



, tables of total combustion 



by, 525 



cyanate, 340 



cyanide, 315, 342 



. ferrocyanide, 327 



hyposulphite, 497 



iodate in solution, 360, 361 



nitrite, 167 



perchlorate, 521 



Potassium permanganate, 177 



picrate, 278 



sulphate, 482 



POTHIEB on slow action, 381 

 Powder, black, 477 



, service, 477 



, sporting, 477, 512 



, blasting, 477, 512 



, properties of, 494 



, densities of. 494 



, products of initial state, 495 



, final state, 496 



, , final, variations in, 498 



, combustion theory, 499 



, equations of, 499 



, pressures of, 501 



, observation and theory compared, 



507 



, heat liberated, 501 



, volume of gases, 501 



, total combustion of, 400 



, saltpetre and charcoal, 491 



, saltpetre and sulphur, 491 



, saltpetre, sulphur, and carbon, 491 



Powders with a lead nitrate base, 517 



with a nitrate base, 477-517 



with a barium nitrate base, 517 



with a chlorate base, 518-526 



with a sodium nitrate base, 515 



, chlorated, properly so called, 



523-526 



, combustion lists, 525 



Pressure, calculation of, 26, 140 



, gaseous, 9, 18, 20 



- , measurements of, 20 



, specific, 28 



, characteristic product of, 32 



PBIESTLEY on the electric spark, 191, 



192 



Primers, importance of, 54 

 Priming, manufacture of, 297 

 Products, formation of gaseous, 11 ^ 

 Proposition on chemical combination, 



11 



Prussian blue, 328 

 Pyroxyl, 433 



, wood-pulp, 445 



, wood-meal, 459 



RAMMELSBEBG on sulphites, 484 

 Eandanite, 75 

 Eapidity, molecular, 38, 531 

 Reactions, 35 



, heat in gaseous, 10, 11 



, measure of, 14 



, pressure in explosive, 20 



, duration of explosive, 35 



, general ideas of, 35 



, origin of, 36 



, molecular rapidity of, 38, 531 



, analysis of, 42 



, rapidity of propagation of, 47 



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