INDEX. 



765 



Lysins, 660 

 Lysol, 574 



M. 



MAGNESIA alba, 273 



calcined, 273 



milk of, 273 

 Magnesite, 272 

 Magnesium, 272 



ammonium phosphate, 742 



carbonate, 273 



citrate, 517 



nitride, 274 



oxide, 273 



sulphate, 274 



effervescent, 274, 517 

 Magnetic field, 74 



iron ore, 73, 293 

 Magnetism, 73 

 Malachite, 323 

 Malleability, 26 

 Malonyl urea, 547 

 Malt, 534 

 Maltose, 534 

 Manganese, 303 



alloys, 303 



carbonate, 303, 306 



oxides of, 302 



spar, 303 

 Manganous hydroxide, 306 



hypophosphite, 304 



sulphate, 304 

 Mannite, 529 

 Mannose, 532 

 Mariotte's law, 26 

 Marsh-gas, 466 

 Marsh's test, 355 

 Mass, definition of, 18 



-action, law of, 116 

 Massicot, 320 

 Matches, safety, 222 

 Matter, action of heat on, 28 



definition of, 18 



fundamental properties of, 18 



radiant, 85 

 Mayer's solution, 601 

 Measures, metric, 32 

 Meat-extracts, 669 

 Mechanical equivalent of heat, 48 

 Meerschaum, 272 

 Melanin, 739 

 Melitose, 534 

 Melting-point, 51 



determination of, 52 

 Membranes, semipermeable, 162 

 Mendelejeff's periodic law, 126 

 Menthol, 599 

 Mercaptans, 495 

 Mercurial ointment, 336 



plaster, 336 

 Mercuric ammonium chloride, 342 



chloride, 339 



compounds, remarks, 336 



Mercuric cyanide, 551 

 fulminate, 541 

 iodide, 340 

 nitrate, 341 

 oxide, 337 



oxy- or subsulphate, 341 

 and potassium iodide, 341 

 and sodium chloride, 339 

 salicylate, 584 

 sulphate, 341 

 sulphide, 335, 342 

 Mercurous chloride, 338 



compounds, remarks, 336 

 iodide, 340 

 nitrate, 341 

 oxide, 337 

 sulphate, 341 

 Mercury, 335 



ammoniated, 342 

 and arsenic iodide, 351 

 complex salts of, 345 

 cyanide, 551 

 fulminate, 541 

 iodides, 340 

 mass of, 336 

 mild chloride of, 338 

 oxides of, 337 

 oxy cyanide, 551 

 proto- or subchloride of, 338 

 purification of, 336 

 salts, action of ammonia on, 343 

 with chalk, 336 

 Meta-compounds, 559 

 Metaldehyde, 492 

 Metals, 247 



alkali-, remarks on, 255 



summary of tests, 272 

 of alkaline earths, 277 



summary of tests, 285 

 of the arsenic group, remarks on, 

 346 



summary of tests, 369 

 classification of, 251 

 derivation of names, 247 

 earth group, summary of tests, 292 

 electro-chemical series of, 198 

 iron group, remarks, 292 



summary of tests, 316 

 lead group, remarks, 318 



summary of tests, 344 

 manufacture of, 253 

 melting-points of, 248 

 noble and base, 253 

 occurrence in nature, 250 

 properties of, 252 

 remarks on tests for, 274 

 separation of, 385 

 specific gravities of, 249 

 time of discovery, 249 

 valence of, 250 

 Metamerism, 451 

 Meta-phenylene-diamine, 566 

 Metaproteins, 631 

 Met-arsenites, 348 



