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SUBJECT INDEX 



Balanced actions, influence of 



precipitation, 504 

 influence of vaporisation, 



508 

 Barium, 281 



sulphate, structure of, 418 

 Base, 17, 25 

 Bases, organic, 433 

 Benzamide, 400, 417 

 Benzene, formula for, 440 

 Benzoic acid, 13 

 formula of, 393 

 radical of, 399 

 structure of, 431 

 Benzoyl chloride, 400, 407, 417, 



418 



compounds, 400, 432 

 radical, 399, 400 

 Beryllium, atomic weight of, 474 

 Bicarbonates, analysed by Berg- 

 man, 109 

 analysed by Cavendish, 109, 



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discovered by Black, 108 

 Black-lead (see Graphite), 101 

 Black oxide of manganese, 211 

 Bleaching, 228 



-powder, 228 

 Blue vitriol, 17 



Boiling-point of dry nitrogen 

 peroxide, 530 



of nitrous anhydride, 530 

 Borax, 288 

 Boric acid, 288 

 Boron, 288 

 Boyle's Law, 325 

 Bromine, 240 



properties of, 241 

 Bronze, 7 



Age, 7 

 Burning, air diminished by, 34 



-glass (Lavoisier), 100, 34; 

 (Mayow), 33; Priestley, 39 

 Butyric acid, 430 



Calces, 26 



metallic, reduced by charcoal, 



95, 139 

 by hydrogen, 123 



Calces, metallic, reduced by po- 

 tassium, 277 

 Calcination, 26 



of mercury, 40 



of tin in sealed flasks, 35 

 Calcined tartar, 3 

 Calcium, 281 



chloride, 282 



fluoride, 283 



hydroxide, 283 



oxide, 283 



sulphate, 21 

 Calc-spar, 105 

 Calomel, 225 



Calomel, dissociation of, 380, 529 

 Calx of gold, 259 



of zinc reduced by charcoal, 



137 



Caput mortuum, 60 

 Carbohydrates, 390 

 Carbon, 98 



allotropy of, 101 



atomic weight of, 350 



compounds, isomerism of, 441 



perchloride of, 407 



quadrivalent, 437, 438 



skeleton, 439 



tetrahedral formula for, 441 

 Carbonated baryta reduced by 



charcoal 

 by iron, 140 

 Carbonates, 103 



isomorphism of, 369 



reduction of, 140, 141 

 Carbonic acid, 103 



anhydride, 103, 251 



composition of, by volume, 



143 



by weight, 145 

 decomposed by sparking, 



144 



dissociation of, 516 

 reduced by charcoal, 142 

 Carbonic oxide, combustion of, 



by copper-oxide, 151 

 composition of, by weight, 



151 



by volume, 143 

 density of, 139 

 discovery of, 137 



