224 MATERIAL, APPARATUS, AND SUPPLIES 



CHEMICALS FOE THE LABOEATOKY 



816. The supply of necessary ehemicals in a laboratory will depend upon 

 the character of the work. This list is therefore merely suggestive. 



Acids, commercial acetic, glacial acetic, chromic, hydrochloric, nitric, 

 osmic, sulphuric. 



Alcohol, commercial and denatured. 



Alcohol, absolute. 



Ammonia. 



Ammonia sulphate of iron (iron alum). 



Benzine. 



Calcium nitrate. 



Calcium oxide (quicklime). 



Calcium sulphate (plaster of Paris). 



Canada balsam. 



Chloroform. 



Chlorziuc iodine (see Sec. 169). 



Ether. 



Fehling's solution (see Sec. 170). 



Ferrio chloride. 



Formalin. 



Glycerin. 



Grafting wax. 



Hydrogen peroxide. 



Iodine. 



Magnesium sulphate. 



Mercury. 



Millon's reagent (see Sec. 170). 



Oil of cloves, cedar oil, olive oil. 



Paraffin, hard and soft. 



Potassium chloride. 



Potassium hydroxide (caustic potash), 5% and 15% solutions (see Sec. 169). 



Potassium permanganate. 



Potassium phosphate, acid. 



Sodium chloride (common table salt and also c.p.). 



Stains, acid fuchsin, eosin, erythrosin, gentian violet, hsematoxylin, 

 iodine, methyl green, orange G, phloroglucin, safranin (directions for 

 making up these stains are given in Sees. 169, 170, 181-186). 



Sugar, cane. 



Vaseline. 

 Water, distilled. 

 Xylol. 



