INDEX. 



425 



Lead-tree, 373. 



Leaves, chemistry of, 128, 130. 



Liebig's classification of food, 574. 



Light and locomotives, 391. 



Light, chemical influence of, 388. 



Light dissected, 393. 



Light, Drummond, 189. 



Light-pictures, 395. 



Lignite, 439. 



Lime, carbonate of, 315. 



Lime, chloride of, 322. 



Lime in the animal kingdom, 578. 



Lime-kiln, 311. 



Lime, phosphate of, 253. 



Lime, solubility of, 313. 



Limestone, 315. 



Lime-water, 125. 



Linen and cotton, 431. 



Liquor sanguinis, 579. 



Liter, value of, see Appendix, p. 415. 



Litharge, 370. 



Lunar caustic, 380. 



Lungs, carbonic anhydride from the, 



125. 

 Lungs not the body's furnace, 198. 



M. 



Madder, 532. 

 Magnesia alba, 329. 

 Magnesium, 329. 

 Manganese, oxides of, 335. 

 Manna, 46G. 

 Manures, 495. 

 Manures, animal, 498. 

 Manures, volatile bodies in, 497. 

 Manuring, green, 480. 

 Marl, 493, 504. 

 Marsh gas, 154. 

 Marsh gas series, 420. 

 Massicot, 370. 



Matches, manufacture of, 252. 

 Mathematical calculations, 36. 

 Matter, circulation of, in the three 



kingdoms, 583. 

 Matter, constitution of, 19. 



Matter, expansion of, explained, 21. 



Matter, forms of, 11. 



Mercuric chloride, 376. 



Mercury, 374. 



Metal, fusible, 279. 



Metals, action of chlorine on, 214. 



Metals, action of nitric acid on, 73. 



Metals, atomicity of, 281. 



Metals, characteristics of, 270. 



Metals, classification of, 281. 



Metals, color of, 272. 



Metals, density of, 271. 



Metals, ductility of, 275. 



Metals, fusibility of, 276. 



Metals, malleability of, 274. 



Metals, specific gravity of, 271. 



Metals, tenacity of, 273. 



Metals, welding of, 277. 



Metamerism, 415. 



Meteorites, 339. 



Meter, value of, see Appendix, p. 415. 



Methylic alcohol, 437. 



Milk, 572. 



Milk-sugar, 459. 



Minerals, peculiarity of, 8. 



Minium, 370. 



Moire' metallique, 353. 



Molecular weights, law of, 30. 



Molecules, 20. 



Molecules and state of aggregation, 



21. 



Molecules, compound and simple, 24. 

 Mordants, 327, 533. 

 Mordants, colors modified by, 534. 

 Morphine, 531. 

 Mortar, 314. 

 Mother of vinegar, 552. 

 Multiple proportions, law of, 31. 

 Musical sounds of burning hydrogen, 



151. 



N. 



Nascent state, 42. 



Nascent state illustrated by forma- 

 tion of ammonia, 1G1. 



