Volume 1
A treatise on chemistry / by H.E. Roscoe and C. Schorlemmer.
- Henry Enfield Roscoe
- Date:
- 1877-1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on chemistry / by H.E. Roscoe and C. Schorlemmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A. Aachen, hot springs at, 248 Abnormal vapour densities, 97 Absorptiometer, Bunsen’s, 237 Absorption of hydrogen by metals, 105 ; of gases by water, 236 Absorptive power of charcoal, 594 Acetic acid, boiling point of, 77 Acetylene, 614 Acids, nomenclature of, 91, 93 nature and properties of, 193 their poisonous action, 495 ; arsenic 529 ; atmospheric carbonic, 449 boric, 542, 548 ; carbonic, 41 chloric, 272 ; cyanic, 670 ; cyanuric 671 ; dithionic, 350 ; graphitic, 640 hydriodic, 158 ; hydrobromic, 148 hydrochloric, 124, 130, 139 ; hydro cyanic, 659; hydrofluoric, 167 hydropersulphocyanic, 674; hydro sulphurous, 314 ; hypobromous, 278 hypochlorous, 265 ; hyponitrous 420 ; hypophosphorous, 487 ; hypo sulphurous, 314 ; iodic, 280 ; meta boric, 552; metaphosphoric, 500 metasilicic, 572; muriatic, 133 nitric, 399 ; nitrosulphonic, 432 nitrous, 423 ; nitroxypyrosulphuric 434;orthoboric, 548;orthophosplioric 496 ; ortliosilicic, 570 ; oxythiocar bamic, 653 ; pentathionic, 353 perbromic, 280; perchloric, 274 periodic, 2S3 ; perthiocyanic, 674 phosphoric, 494 ; phosphorous, 489 pyroboric, 552 ; pyrophosphotriamic 514; propionic, 77; prussic, 656 pyrophosphoric, 503 ; selenic, 363 selenious, 362 ; silicic, 570; su] phocyanic, 672; sulpho-nitro, 431 sulphuric, 30S ; sulphurous, 312 silico-fluoric, 564 ; tetrathionic, 353 thiocai bamic, 654 ; thiocyanic, 672 thiocarbonic, 644 ; thiophosphoric 511 ; thiosulphuric, 348 ; trithionic 352. Acid-forming oxides, 193 Action, chemical, 45 Adamantine boron, 542 After-damp, 609 Agate, 568, 570 Agate knife-edge for balances, 58 Agricola, his treatise on metallurgy, 8 Air, researches of Priestley and Caven- dish, 16, 18 ; composite nature of, 42, 47, 48, 244 ; elements in the, 53, 55, 171 ; pressure of, 75 ; former and present use of the term, 434 ; analysis of, by weight, 442 ; analysis of, by volume, 445, (and see Atmo- sphere). Albertus Magnus, 6, 516 Albite, crystals of, 739 Albright and Wilson, their phosphorus works near Birmingham, 462 Alchemists, names and symbols of planets applied to metals by, 88 ; their knowledge of hydrochloric and nitric acids, and arsenic, 124, 400, 516 Alcohol, boiling-point of, 77 Aldehyde, 202 Alkalis, 194 ; Black’s researches on, 15 . Alkaline waters, 248 Allen and Pepys, nature of the dia- mond, 578 Allotropic modifications of matter, 56 Alum, 234 ; crystals of, 717 Aluminium, atomic weight of, 52 ; in the earth’s crust, 55 Ammelide, 677 Ammonia, 377 ; known to early alche- mists, 378 ; preparation and pro- perties of, 379, 80 ; liquefaction of, 383 ; composition of, 388 ; detection and estimation of, 393 ; hydroxyla- mine, or oxy-ammonia, 394 ; in air and rain-water, 453, 455 Annnoniacal liquor, 684 Ammonio chloride of boron, 546 48](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28122409_0001_0771.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
