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INDEX. 



Cinnabar, 374. 

 Clay, constituents of, 259. 

 Clays, ingredients of, 326. 

 Climate and food, 566. 

 Coal, 98. 



Coal, combustion of, 177. 

 Coals, varieties of, 439. 

 Cobalt, 348. 

 Cohesion, 37. 

 Collodion, 433. 

 Coloring matters, 532. 

 Combustion by nitric acid, 76. 

 Combustion, chemistry of, 169. 

 Combustion, early ideas of, 168. 

 Combustion, general remarks on, 167. 

 Combustion in chlorine, 221. 

 Combustion, means of hastening, 180. 

 Combustion of hydrogen, 170. 

 Combustion, requisites for, 194. 

 Combustion, results of, 179. 

 Combustion, spontaneous, 192, 521. 

 Combustion without oxygen, 193. 

 Compound ethers (page 388), 548. 

 Compounds and mixtures, difference 



between, 157. 

 Compounds, chemical, composition 



of, 27. 



Compounds, naming of, 18. 

 Copper, 366. 

 Copper, nitrate of, 73. 

 Copper, sulphate of, 367. 

 Copper, test for, 368. 

 Coral, 315. 

 Corpulency, 568. 

 Courtois, M., 228. 

 Cream of tartar, 508. 

 Creosote, 436. 

 Crops, rotation in, 494. 

 "Cry "of tin, 353. 

 Cyanogen, 164. 

 Cyanogen, preparation of, 165. 



D. 



Daguerre, 389. 



Davy, Sir Humphrey, 4, 154. 



Definite proportions, law of, 27. 

 Deliquescence, 159. 

 Dephlogisticated air, 48. 

 Deville,M.,325. 

 Dextrin, 454. 

 Dextrin from starch, 455. 

 Diamond, 100. 

 Diastase, 472. 

 Diffusion of gases, 120. 

 Dimorphism, 234. 

 Displacement, 104. 

 Dissociation, 43. 

 Distillation of liquors, 544. 

 Dobereiner's lamp, 385. 

 Drummond light, 189. 

 Dyads, 44. 

 Dynamite, 515. 



Eau de Cologne, 524. 



Efflorescence, 159. 



Egg, formation of the bird in the, 



563. 



Electrolysis, 141. 

 Element, definition of, 2. 

 Elements, ancient view of, 3. 

 Elements as found in nature, 6. 

 Elements, atomicity of, 44. 

 Elements, atomic weights of, 4, 26. 

 Elements, classification of, 5. 

 Elements, forms of, 5. 

 Elements in organized bodies, sources 



of, 408. 



Elements, principal, 4. 

 Elements, table of, 4. 

 Emerald, 330. 

 Emery, 326. 

 Endosmose, 582. 

 Epsom salt, 329. 

 Equations explained, 33, 35. 

 Etching on glass, 232. 

 Ether, preparation of, 549. 

 Ether, properties of, 547. 

 Ethers, compound (page 388), 548. 

 Ethers, how derived, 423. 



