INDEX. 



453 



Nitric oxide or nitrous gas, ii. Nitrous acid, ii. 44 



43 Nitrous oxide, ii. 40 



Nitrogen, ii. 39 Nomenclature of chemistry, ii. 

 Nitrous acid gas, ii. 44 19. 142 



M. 



Machines, compound, i. 48 



Machine, electric, i. 322 



Magic lanthorn, i. 316 



Magnesia, ii. 89 



Magnetism, i. 396 



Malt, 135154. 



Manganese, ii. 118 



Mastic, ii. 129 



Matter, i. 1 its proper- 

 ties, i. 2 



Mechanics, i. 1 



Mechanic powers, i. 23 



Mercury, ii. 103 



Metals, ii. 94 refining of, 

 ii. 215. 



Mezzotinto scraping, ii. 431 



Microscopes, i. 271 



Milk, ii. 139 



Mills, i. 67 



Mirrors, i. 262 



Mixture, as distinguished from 

 combination, ii. 6 



Mobility of matter , % i. 2 



Molybdena, ii. 120* 



Moon, i. 436 



Mordant, ii. 180 



Motion, laws of, i. 7 commu- 

 nication of, i. 58 regula- 

 tion of, by fly wheels, i. 62 



Moving powers, i. 52 



Moulding and casting, ii. 284 



Mucilage, or gum, ii. 126 



Mucus, ii. 138 



Multiplying glass, i. 311 



Muriate of soda, ii. 83 



of ammonia, ii. 86 



Muriatic acid, ii. 65 



O. 



Oil of vitriol, ii. 69 

 Oil, fixed, ii. 128 



volatile, ii. 129 



animal, ii. 139 



phosphoric, ii. 319 



Operations, chemical, ii. 6 



Optics, i. 232 



Orrery, electrical, i. 333 



Osmium, ii. 121 

 Oxychloric acid, ii. 64 

 Oxydes, ii. 96 

 Oxygen, ii. 36 

 Oxygenated muriatic acid, 



used in bleaching, ii. 166 

 Oxymuriate of potash, ii. 82 



P. 



Palladium, ii. 122 

 Paper, bleaching of, ii. 177 

 Paradox, hydrostatic, i. 109 

 Paste,method of making, ii. 303 

 Pasting, ii. 218 

 Pearlash, ii. 80 

 Pendulum, i. 80 

 Perkinism, i. 394 

 Perspective, ii. 374 

 Pewter, ii. Mi 



Phantasmagoria, i 316 

 Phlogiston, ii. 98 

 Phosphorus, ii. 74 method of 



making, ii. 316 



Phosphoretted hydrogen, ii. 62 

 Phosphoric acid, ii. 76 

 Phosphuret of lime, ii. 88. 320 

 Pinchbeck, or princes' metal, 



ii. 110 

 Piaster of Paris, ii. 89 



