Notes 



Page 6. i. in der Regel, commonly. 



2. Auf Wasserstoff bezogen, referred to hydrogen. 

 Page 7. i. an der Luft, in air. 



Page 10. i. Stahlschienenfabrikation, steel rail manufacture. 

 Page 17. i. Wenn . . . , so . . . This sentence illustrates a 



form of expression common in technical literature. The 



so is not to be translated. 

 Page 26. i. zu Chlorwasserstoff, to form hydrogen chloride. A form of 



expression common in chemical literature. 



Page 31. i. belletristischen Blatter, periodicals devoted to belles lettres. 

 2. Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung, limited corporation, 



usually abbreviated to G. m. b. H. 

 Page 32. i. im grossen, wholesale; im kleinen, retail. 



2. Kammersaure, chamber acid. Sulphuric acid from the 



leaden chambers and before boiling down in the leaden 



pans. 

 Page 33. i. Auswahlsendungen, a shipment from which a choice is to 



be made by a customer. 

 Page 41. i. See note i to page 17. 

 Page 45. i. spurenweise, only in traces. 

 Page 48. i. in Abzug zu bringen, to be deducted. 



2. In the description of a process the verbs in the several short 



clauses may be used with omission of the objects when 



the meaning is not thereby affected. 

 Page 55. i. kann auch substitutierend darauf einwirken, can also react 



upon it substitutingly. 

 Page 56. i. hermetische, relating to Hermes, a mythological character, 



famed as the reputed author of many lost books upon 



alchemy, to whom the alchemists looked back reverently 



for knowledge of their art. 

 2. arabisirt, made into Arabic. 

 Page 57. i. zu Gold machen, make into gold. 

 Page 58. i. unter sich nicht einig, not in accord. 

 Page 61. i. von Grund aus, thoroughly, completely. 



2. fixirt, brought to a condition of fixedness, stability, re- 

 fractoriness; **. e., to a condition approaching more to 



that of gold. 

 Page 62. i. dass diese Verbindung . . . als bei anderen, that this 



union is more complete and intimate with some metals 



than with others. 



