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INDEX. 



Ammonia, 83, 148. 



— absorbed by alumina, 



654, 880. 



— absorbed by charcoal, 



&c., 162. 



— carbonate of, 148, 154. 



— fixing of, 790,876, 888. 

 — - in air, 150, 638. 



— in rain-water, 150. 



— loss of, 790. 



— muriate, 156. 



— phosphate, 161, 793. 



— salts of, 154, 790, 885. 



— sulphate, 159. 



— urate of, 610, 1004. 

 Ammoniacal liquor, 154, 854, 886. 

 Analyses, 17, 317, 906. 



Animal heat, 607, 787. 



— manures, 777, 786, 795, 



799, 817. 



— principles, proximate, 557. 



— substances, 555. 

 Animals, breathing of, 107, 606. 



— fattening of, 601,614, 936. 

 Annotta, 580, 588. 



Apple jelly, 336. 



Aqua-fortis, 163. 



Argol, 498. 



Arrack, 410. 



Arrowroot, 331. 



Arteries, 606. 



Artichoke, Jerusalem, 334, 956. 



Ashes, 879. 



— lixiviated, 1007. 



— of coal, 881. 



— plants, 546. 



— sea-weed, 879, 1009. 



— turf, 880, 1008. 

 Ashes of wood, 199, 891, 1006. 

 Atom, 138. 



Attraction, 3, 5. 

 Azote, 27, 146. 



B. 



Balloons, 58, 82. 

 Bamboo, 548. 

 Barilla, 218. 

 Barley, 333, 413, 913. 



— straw, 913. 



— sugar, 344. 



Barm, 366,441. 



Barometer, 55. 



Base, 109, 148, 198, 225, 269. 



Basting meat, 627. 



Batatas, 955. 



Bay salt, 215. 



Bean, field, 330, 939, 942. 



— straw, 941. 

 Beans, kidney, 940. 

 Beech ashes, 1006. 

 Beech nuts, 938. 

 Beer, 411. 



— Bavarian, 437. 

 Beet, 966. 



Beet-root sugar, 342. 

 Bell metal, 314. 

 Bile, 607. 



Binary compounds, 316. 

 Biphosphate of lime, 245, 834. 

 Bitartrate of potash, 389, 498. 

 Bittern, 251. 

 Black currant jelly, 336. 

 Bleaching by chlorine, 185. 



— by sulphur, 175, 542. 

 Blende, 305. 

 Blood, 565, 606. 

 Blubber, 823. 

 Bones, 195, 242, 595, 826, 877. 



— as manure, 826. 



— boiled, 826. 



— of calves, 1001. 



— fishes, 1001. 



— horses, 1000. 

 Bones of oxen, 999. 



— pigs, 1001. 

 — • sheep, 998. 



Bones and sulphuric acid, 832. 

 Bran, 909. 

 Brandy, 396. 

 Brass, 314. 

 Bread, 438. 



— baking of, 453. 



— rising of, 456. 



— unfermented, 468. 



— use of alum in, 456. 

 Bricks, 255. 

 Brimstone, 171. 



British gum, 360. 

 Bromide of magnesium, 72. 

 Bromides, 193. 

 Bromine, 193. 

 Brown stout, 433. 



