Waste products and undeveloped substances : a synopsis of progress made in their economic utilisation during the last quarter of a century at home and abroad / by P.L. Simmonds.

Date:
1873
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Credit: Waste products and undeveloped substances : a synopsis of progress made in their economic utilisation during the last quarter of a century at home and abroad / by P.L. Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    INDEX. ACETATE. Acetate of lime, 326. Acid run to waste, 403. Acorns, uses of, 189. Agglomerated coal, 354, 358. Albertite, 395. Albumen from fish spaAra, 120. Albumenised photographic paper, use of waste, 296. Alcohol from the arbutus, 213. ■ from the asphodel, 228. from the Jerusalem ai'ti- choke, 213. ■ from maize, 289. Alizarine, 9. , quantity made, 374. Alkali waste, various uses, 398, 399. Alloxan, 175. ' AUumettes Landaises, 227. Alpaca woo], 68. Alum, .371. Amadou, souj-ces of, 229. American asphaltum, 395. Amianthus, 466. Ammonia from coal gas, formerly- wasted, 2. ■ gas, 370. , sulpliate of, 385. Ammoniacal liquor, sold in Lon- don, 377. — , uses of, 378. from peat, 310. Anchors and chain cables, old, 450. Angora rabbit, value of, 129. Aniline colours from coal and car- bon, 2, 8, 371. AZULINE. Aniline, quantity produced, 373. Animal charcoal, 90. , for sugar refining, 95. food, great waste of, 40. manure, 40. in New South Wales, 46. refuse, disposal of, in Ame- rica, 130. ' waste, 38. Anthracene, 9, 374. Anthrachinon, 375. Anthracite as fuel, 298, 355. Antwerp corporation, utilisation of the waste of the city by, 14. Arabine, 339. Areca palm-leaves, 234. Argentiferous galena, 424. Arsenical acid, 374. Asbestos, analysis of, 468. various uses of, 466-476. Ash-balls and wood-ash, 255. Ashes from coal for manure, 381. from gasworks, 377. Asparagus stems for paper, 288. Aspen wood for paper, 282. Asphalte from coal-tar, 380. from Trinidad, 398. Asphaltum, 311. , sources of, 395. Asphodel, spirit from, 228. Asses eaten for food in Paris, 60. Atep leaves, 234. Australian Manure Company, 47. Azuline, 373.