INDEX. 



479 



Wood- 

 red, 230 



removal of bark from, 229 

 roasted, 230 

 spirit (methyl alcohol) 234 



charcoal, wood-vinegar, and 



tar, yield of, 250-253 

 crude, composition of, 247 

 examination of commercial, 



249, 250 

 manner of obtaining, 247- 



250 



rectified, purification of, 249 

 still for, illustrated and de- 

 scribed, 248, 249 

 uses of, 249 



Stoltze's experiments on the 

 amount and strength of the 

 products obtained from the dis- 

 tillation of several varieties of, 

 250, 251 



sugar and alcohol from, 217 

 vinegar, 232, 233 



acids occurring in, 246, 247 

 determination of the strength 



of, 235-237 



from sawdust, 252, 253 

 manufacture of, 215-253 

 properties and constituents 



of, 232, 233 



still for the distillation of, 

 illustrated and described, 

 237, 238 

 wood-spirit, charcoal, and 



tar, yield of, 250-253 

 working up the, 237-241 



Wood- 

 yield of charcoal from different 



varieties of, 231 

 Woods, table of specific gravity of, 



216 



Woody fibre, composition of, 215 

 Working, causes of deviations from 



the regular order of, 1 1 5 

 up the wood- vinegar, 237-241 

 Workroom, construction of the floor 



of the, 69 



heating of the, 69-72 

 maintenance of a uniform tem- 

 perature in the, 68, 69 

 temperature of the, 47, 191 

 ventilation in the, 68, 69 



YEAST, compressed, preparation 

 of, 160 



setting the mash with, 160 

 what it is, 312, 313 

 Yield, calculation of the theoretical, 

 of acetic acid from alcohol, 44, 



45 



of charcoal, wood-vinegar, and 

 wood-spirit, as well as of tar, 

 250-253 



Yields of acetic acid obtained in prac- 

 tice. 48, 49 



theoretical and practical, defini- 

 tion of, 44 



acetate, 279 



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