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INDEX. 



Iron 



reduced, 146 



scale compounds of, 151 



sulphates, 149 



wrought-, 145 

 Isomerism, 249 

 Isomorphism, 19 



KALIUM, 110 

 Kali, 110 

 Kelp, 106 

 Keratin, 364 

 Kreatin, 364 



T ACTIC acid, 294 

 1J Lactometer, 369 

 Lactoscope, 370 

 Lactose, 313 

 Lanthanum, 58 

 Lapis infernalis, 173 

 Latent heat, 24 

 Laughing-gas, 76 

 Laurene, 265 

 Law, Avogadro's, 23 



of chemical combination by weight, 



41 

 by volume, 42 



of constancy of composition, 41 



of diffusion of gases, 35 



Dulong and Petit's, 50 



of equivalents, 44 



Mariotte's, 19 



of multiple proportions, 42 

 Laws of chemical combination, 41 

 Lead, 164 



acetate, 285 



analytical reactions of, 166 



antidotes to, 165 



carbonate, 164 



chloride, 166 



chromate, 166 



iodide, 165 



nitrate, 164 



oxide, 164 



plaster, 309 



phosphate, 166 



-water, 285 



white, 164 

 Lecithin, 342, 362 

 Legumin, 343 

 Leacine, 344 



Light, decomposition by, 52 

 Light magnesia, 130 

 Lime, acid phosphate of, 134 



chloride of, 135 



chlorinated, 135 



-kiln, 132 



quick-, 132 



slaked, 133 



superphosphate of, 134 



Lime-water, 133 

 Limestone, 132 

 Liquefaction of solids, 207 

 Liquids, definition of, 19 

 Litharge, 164 

 Lithium, 124 



citrate, 293 



salicylate, 301 

 Litmus, 55 

 Lunar caustic, 173 

 Lymph, 358 



MAGNESIA, 130 

 calcined, 130 

 Magnesium, 129 



analytical reactions of, 131 



carbonate, 129 



oxide, 130 



sulphate, 130 



sulphite, 130 

 Malachite, 166 

 Malic acid, 289 

 Manganates, 154 

 Manganese, 153 



analytical reactions of, 155 



black oxide of, 154 



dioxide, 154 



oxides of, 153 

 Manganous carbonate, 155 



chloride, 155 



hydrate, 155 



oxide, 154 



sulphate. 154 

 Marble, 132 ' 

 Mariotte's law, 19 

 | Marsh-gas, 82 

 Marsh's test for arsenic, 189 

 Matter, definition of, 17 

 Mass, 17 



Meconic acid, 326 

 Meerschaum, 129 

 Melissic acid, 282 

 Melting-points of metals, 110 

 Mercurial ointment, 175 



plaster, 175 

 Mercuric chloride, 177 



cyanide, 335 



fulminate, 339 



iodide, 178 



nitrate, 179 



oxide, 176 



salts, analytical reactions of, 181 



sulphate, 179 



sulphide, 179 

 Mercurous chloride, 176 



chromate, 158 



iodide, 178 



nitrate, 179 



oxide, 175 



salts, analytical reactions of, 

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