INDEX.
N.B. A dash rule represent the italics immediately preceding it.
- ACOUSTICAL figures., peculiar,314.
- Aërial perspective, 15.
- Air excluded from ice, 373.
- Alkali in glass, its effect, 281.
- Alkaline change of vegetable colours,
- Alloys of iron, 80.
- Alloys of steel, 57, 68.
- Aluminium and polarized light, 441.
- Aluminium dedagradons, 405.
- Ammonia, cases of its formation, 143.
- , its pressure, 114.
- , liquefied, 94, 114, 127.
- , soldified, 114.
- , compounds with chlorides, 18.
- , solutions of silver in, 13.
- Ammonio-fulminating silver, 16.
- Anhydrous sulphate of soda, 230.
- Arseniuretted hydrogen, liquefied, 115,
- , its pressure, 115.
- Bimrburet of hydrogen, 157.
- Boracic acid, its action on turmeric, 27.
- Bottles replaced by tubes, 152.
- Breathing time extended, 358.
- Bromides of phosphorus, 104.
- Caoutchouc, 174,
- Capillary tubes and gases 5, 6.
- Carbon, chlorides of, 33.
- Caribon and hydrogen, new compounds of, 154.
- Carbonic acid, liquefied, 92, 108, 121, 124, 133.
- , solidided, 102, 108.
- , its freezing- and boiling-points, 110
- , its pressure, 109.
- , solid, electric, 102.
- baths, 99.
- Carburet of hydrogen, new, 163.
- Chemical force an conservation of force,454, 461.
- Chloride of silver and ammonia, 18, 94.
- decomposed by hydrogen, 31.
- zinc, 31.
- Chlorides of carbon, 33, 53.
- Chlorides combined with ammonia, 19.
- Chlorine, hydrated, 81.
- Chlorine gas condensed, 84, 85, 95, 129,
- Cohesion, its effect in solids and fluids, 378.
- , its relation to ice and water, 378.
- , in relation to saline crysals, 380.
- Cold baths for gases, 99.
- Combustion of the diamond, 11.
- Condensation gauges, 91, 98.
- Condensation of gases, 89, 96.
- , ammonia, 94, 114, 127.
- , arserinuretted hydrogen., 115, 130.
- , carbonic acid, 92, 108, 121, 124, 133.
- , chlorine, 85, 95, 129, 131.
- , cyanogen, 94, 113.
- , euchlorine, 92, 110.
- , fluosilicon, 104.
- , hydriodic acid, 103.
- , hydro bromic acid, 104.
- , hydrochloric acid, 95, 106, 131.
- , nitrous oxide, 93, 111, 117.
- , olefiant gas, 102, 118.
- , oxygen attempted, 122.
- , phosphuretted hydrogen, 105.
- , sulphuretted hydrogen, 90, 107.
- , sulphurous acid, 89, 107, 129, 132
- Condensed gases, their elasticity, 122.
- Conduction of heat, sounds during, 311.
- Conservation of force, 443, 460.
- Copper and polarized light 440.
- , deflagrations, 404.
- , fllm, 410.
- Crispation of vibrating fluids, 335.
- Crystals of sulphate of soda 153, 230.
- Cynogen, liquefied, 94, 113.
- , solidified, 113.
- Decomposition of hydrocarbons by sudden expansion, 219.
- Deflagrated metals, their action on light, 401, 404, 435.
- Depolarization of light by gold, 437.