562 



INDEX. 



Keactions, transmission of, 53 



, intermediate mode of, 57 



, difference in, 63 



. See under the substances 



between sulphur, carbon, their 



oxide, and salts, 479 

 RECHENBERG on phenol, 277 



on nitromannite, 283 



REFFYE, DE, apparatus of, 20 

 Be'gime of detonation, 112 



of ordinary combustion, 112 



REGNAULT on pressure, 10 



on specific heat, 19 



and the water calorimeter, 145 



, eudiometer of, 151 



on vaporisation of water, 158 



on absorption of ammonia, 224 



RICQ, Captain, the recorder of, 21 

 RODMAN punch, the, 20 

 ROSCOE on perchloric acids, 351, 352 

 Roux on explosions, 52 



on charges for bombs, 58 



on heat liberation, 509, 514 



RUHMKORFF, machine of, '/20-229 

 RUMFORD, apparatus of, 20 



S 



SAINT-ROBERT, DE, on ballistics, 16 



on velocity of powder- combustion, 



49 



Saline compounds, 482 



Salts, formation of, 117 



, solid, 126, 127 



in solution, 135 



and acids, 119 



SARRATJ on explosion of nitroglycerin, 

 16 



, memoirs of, 16 



, researches of, 23, 29 



, new method of, 25 



on dynamite, 31 



on gun-cotton, 52, 288, 449, 450, 



451, 458 



on explosions, 55 



on charges for a bomb-shell, 58 



on powder-combustion, 205 



on picrates, 277 



on nitroglycerin, 283, 424, 425 



on nitromannite, 428, 429 



on picric acid, 462 



on potassium picrate, 463 



on calibration of crushers, 472 



on an air-bomb, 509 



SCHEURER-KESTNER on coal-combus- 

 tion, 489 



SCHISCHKOFF on potassium nitrate, 

 160 



on powders, 477 



on heat liberation of powders, 509 



on volume of gases of powders, 



510 



SCHLOESING on the regime of combus- 

 tion, 113 



SCHLOESING on ozone, 208 



on oxidation of ammonia, 214 



, cold process of, 311, 447 

 SCHONBEIN on ozone, 208, 218 



, discovery of gun-cotton by, 444 



SCHONE on sulphur and carbon, 483 

 Schulze chronograph, 21, 22 



powders, 445, 517 



, analysis of, 459 



SEBERT, memoirs of, 16 



, experiments of, 17 



, apparatus of, 2i 



on velocities of propagation, 55 



449 



on gun-cotton, 445 

 Selenide, nitrogen, 253 



, VERNEUIL'S formula of, 26S 



, an endothermal compound, 263 



Shock, phenomena of, 50 

 SILBERMANN, mercury calorimeter of, 



145 



. See FAVRE 



Silent discharge, action of the, 222 



Silica, amorphous, 436 



Silver cyanide, from acid and base, 233 



fulminate, nature of, 470 



hyponitrite, 185 



nitrate, 166 



oxalate, 366, 475 



Sodium acetate, 416 



nitrate, 515, 516 



nitrite, formation of, 167 



Solfatara, phenomenon of the, 393 

 SOUBEYRAN on a chlorine compound. 



240 



Stability, tests of, 381 

 STAHL on nitric acid, 207 

 Stirrer, the, 147 

 Succinates, 126 

 Sulphates, 126 

 Sulphide, nitrogen, 261 

 Sulphur and potassium carbonate, 483 

 Sulphurous acid gas and carbon, 479 



and carbonic oxide, 481 



gas, decomposition of, 479 



Summary Book L, 527 

 , Book II. 535 



, Book III., 536 

 Synchronous vibration, 80, 533 



Table of authorities, 124 



of compounds, 125-144 



of weights of gases, 542 



TAIT on nitrogen monoxide, 191 

 Tamping, 41, 56 

 Tartrates, 127 



Temperatures, theoretical, 64 

 THENARD on acetylene, 228 

 Thermo-chemistry, 114, 527 



and molecular work, 114, 115 



, calorific equivalence, etc., 115- 



121 



