SUBJECT INDEX 



575 



Marsh gas, discovery of, 156 

 properties of, 156 

 structure of, 440 

 type, 437 



Mass action, 501, 502, 504, 511 

 Matter indestructible, 389 

 Mercury, 7 



atomic weight of, 351 



calcination of, 40 



oxide heated alone, and with 



charcoal, 97 

 red oxide of, 39 



trough, 88 ; Lavoisier's, 147 

 Metalepsy, 406 

 Metalloids, 451 

 Metals, action of nitric acid on, 



79 



and non-metals, 451 

 burning of, 26 

 not attacked by dry chlorine, 



533 

 not dissolved by dry acids, 



specific and atomic heats of, 



363, 472 



Methyl alcohol, 403, 405 



Methylamine, 422 



Methyl compounds, 405, 432 

 radical, 404 



Mice, 12, 39, 86, 87 



Milk of sulphur, 171 



Milk-sugar, formula of, 393 



Minium, 8 



Missing elements (Mendeleeff), 



476 ; (Newlands), 455 

 total number of, 492 



Mixed types, 429 



Moisture, influence of on dis- 

 sociation, on combustion, and 

 on chemical change, 528 533 



Molecular compounds, 441 

 formulae, 373 



heat of nitrogen peroxide, 526 

 heats of compounds, 367 

 weights determined by Avo- 



gadro's hypothesis, 340 

 exact, 356 



Monatomic gases, 352, 354 

 radicals, 433 



Mortar, 6 



Mucic acid, composition of, 391 



formula of, 393 

 Multiple proportions in car- 

 bonates 



in gases, 304, 305, 306 

 in oxalates, 305, 306 

 in oxides of carbon, 308 

 of copper, iron, lead, 



sulphur, 307 

 in sulphates, 306 

 in sulphides of iron, 304, 307 

 types, 427 



Muriates of copper, gold, iron, 

 lime, magnesia, potash, soda, 

 20 

 Muriatic acid, 14 



composition of, 216 

 contains hydrogen, 215 

 radical, 218, 222, 225 



N 



Natural series, Dumas's, 453 



Nebulium, 493 



Neodymium and praseodym- 

 ium, 303 



Neumann's Law of Molecular 

 Heats, 367 



Nitrate of potash, 19 

 of silver, 19 

 of soda, 19 



Nitrates, 199 



Nitre, 5, 19 



acid spirit of, 14 

 decomposed by heat, 198 

 Egyptian, action of vinegar 



on, 5 

 mother of, 58 



Nitric aeid, 14, 73, 198, 199 

 analysis of, 200 

 composition of, 199, 202, 



379 



displaced by vitriol, 22, 498 

 formed during explosion of 



hydrogen and oxygen, 



116, 188 

 produced by sparking air, 



1 88 



pure, properties of, 533 

 structure of, 439 



