774 



INDEX. 



Vinegar, 502 

 Vital force, 439 

 Vitriol, blue, 325 



green, 298 



white, 315 

 Volatile oils, 594 

 Volhard's solution, 427 

 Volt, 77 

 Voltaic electricity, 74 



induction, 78 

 Volumetric methods, 406 



solutions equivalents of, 416, 419, 



422, 426 

 Vulcanite, 598 

 Vulcanized rubber, 597 

 Vulcanizers, 80 



W. 



WASHING soda, 263 

 Wassermann reaction, 662 

 Waste products of animal life, 648 

 Water, 148 



analysis, 429 



bitter almond, 578 



of crystallization, 152 



distilled, 150 



drinking-, 149 



-gas, 184 



hard, 149, 181 



lead-, 504 



mineral, 149 



soft, 149 



-vapor, tension of, 53 

 Waves, actinic, 56 



of heat, 51 



infra-red, 56 



light, 56 



ultra-violet, 56 

 Wax, 520 

 Weight, absolute, 32 



apparent, 32 



atomic, definition of, 98 



definition of, 31 



specific, 32 



metric, 32 



molecular, 99 

 Welsbach mantle, 291 

 Weyl's reaction, 667 

 Whey, 700 

 Whiskey, 486 

 White arsenic, 348 



-lead, 321 



I White precipitate, 342 



vitriol, 315 

 Widal's reaction, 660 

 Will-Varrentrap determination of nitro- 

 gen, 445 

 Wine, 486' 

 Witherite, 283 

 Wood-naphtha, 482 



-spirit, 482 

 Wool-fat, 527 

 Work, chemical, 142 



X. 



XANTHINE, 668 



alkaloids, 615 



bases, 667 



bodies, 717 



Xanthoproteic reaction, 626 

 Xeroform, 572 

 Xylenes, 563 



Y. 



YELLOW prussiate of potash, 554 

 -wash, 338 



Z. 



ZEIN, 628 

 Zinc, 312 



acetate, 503 



alloys, 313, 323 



amalgam, 313 



-blende, 312 



bromide, 314 



carbonate, 314 



chloride, 314 



flowers of, 313 



hydroxide, 313 



iodide, 314 



oxide, 313 



oxy chloride, 314 



oxy phosphate, 314 



phenolsulphonate, 573 



silicate, 312 



sulphate, 315 



sulphocarbolate, 573 



valerate, 506 



-white, 313 

 Zincates, 317 

 Zingiberene, 597 

 Zymogens, 638 



