INDEX. 



473 



Matches, Friction, 178. 

 Mercury, 259. 



Quantity of, the Air can Sus 



tain, 80. 

 Metals, 231. 



Classification of, 231. 

 Deposition of, by Electricity, 



106. 



Effect of flame on, 106. 

 Milk, 422. 



Solid, 423. 



Table of the Composition of, 

 Cow's, A pp. 

 Human, App. 

 Mineral Dyes, 399. 

 Moisture, Deposition of, 70. 

 Molasses, 361. 

 Mordants, 398. 



Multiple Proportions, Laws of, 134. 

 Muriatic Acid, 210. 



Effect of, on Wood, 354. 



Nickel, 246. 

 Nitrate of Silver, 312. 

 Nitrates, 309. 

 Nitre, 310. 

 Nitric Acid, 173. 



Effects of, on Wood, 352. 

 Nitrogen, 169. 

 Nutrition, Vegetable, 346. 



O. 



Oil of Vitriol, Manufacture of, 163. 

 Oils, Empyreumatic, 382. 



Essential, 379. 



from Coal, 355. 



Olefiant Gas, Conversion of Alco- 

 hol into, 369. 

 Organic Acids, 372. 



Analysis, 430. 



Bases, 395. 



Chemistry, General Views of, 



335. 



Oxalic Acid, 378. 

 Oxides, 285 



Oxides, Formation of, 136. 



Names of, 135. 



reduced by Carbonic Oxide, 

 195. 



Uses of, 293. 

 Oxygen, 141. 



a Purveyor for Plants, 147. 



Bleaching by, 147. 



Compounds of, with Chlorine, 



156. 



Oxhydrogen Blowpipe, 229. 

 Ozone, 148. 



P. 



Peat, 350. 

 Petroleum, 386. 

 Phosphates, 317. 

 Phosphorescence, 177. 

 Phosphorus, 176. 



Combustion of, by Nitric Acid, 

 176. 



Combustion of, in Oxygen, 144. 

 Phosphuretted Hydrogen, 219. 

 Photographs, 329. 

 Plants, Constituents of, 348. 



Relation of, to the Soil, 402. 

 Plaster, Aluminated, 306. 



of Paris, 305. 

 Platinum, 271. 

 Porcelain Painting, 323. 

 Potassa, 287. 



Carbonate of, 314. 



Nitrate of, 310. 

 Potassium, 233. 



Cyanide of, 375. 

 Precipitation, 207-275. 

 Pressure, Actual, in different En- 

 gines, 90. 



of the Atmosphere, 79. 



The Exact Relation of Temper- 

 ature to, 88. 

 Printing, Anastatic, 331. 



Calico, 400. 

 Prism, construction of, 21. 



Effect of, on Rays, 21. 

 Prussic Acid, 377. 

 Putrefaction, 390. 



