Chemistry / by George Wilson.

  • George Wilson
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chemistry / by George Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECT. Quercitron bark, yellow dye, for- mula of composition of, . 1197 Quercia tinctoria, the plant which yields quercitron bark, . . 1197 Quicksilver for thermometers, 213 Quina or quinine, formula, &c., 1167 Radiation, effects of colour and polish on, . . 264-267 Radiation of heat, . 249, 264-267 Radicals, simple salt, Ratios, combining, Reciprocal proportion, law of, -, law of, 594 61 57 82 70 result of1 constancy in atomic weight, .... Reciprocal proportion, modifica- tion of the law of, Red, one of the three primary colours, .... 1195 Red-fire, how produced, and com- position of, . . . 817 Reducing flame of blowpipe, colour of the, blue, . . 520 Reinsch’s arsenic test, 1039, note Relative weights of the atoms of elementary bodies, . . 76 Rennet, coagulating power of, 1104 , coagulation of milk by, 1104 Reverberatory furnace, with woodcut, . . . 885, 886 Rhombohedral crystal system, . 314 Right prismatic crystal system, 314 Eubia tinctorum, the plant of which madder is the root, . 1196 Ruby, the gem, constitution of, 833 497 500 Safety-lamp, construction of, with a woodcut, . Safety-lamp, experiments to illus- trate nature of, Safety-lamp, invented by Sir Humphry Davy, Sago, from the sago palm, Sal ammoniac, — , or ammonia from, , or hydrochlorate of ammonia, . . .752 495 1072 52 754 Salt, a, and an acid, no essential difference between, . .674 Salt, a, defined, . 674, note Salt-basyle, . . 674, note Salt-basyles contrasted with salt- radicals, . . 1131, 1132 Salt, common, ingredients of, . 52 or chloride of so- dium, Salt, common, the type of both salts and acids, . Salt-oil, Saltpetre, or nitre, Salt - radicals combine with all metals, 348 Salt-radicals, compound, Salt-radicals contrasted with salt- basyles, . . . 1131,1132 Salt-radicals, simple, . . 594 , and com- pound, . . . 674, note Salt, spirit of, or hydrochloric acid, .... 601-620 Salts, all, constructed alike, as well as acids, . . . 667 Salts and acids, theory of, . 666-674 , how crystallisable, . 310 , mode of naming, . 141 of ethyle, called ethers, . 1133 potass, . . 715 —, old and new nomenclature of, tabulated, . . . 674 Salts, the two great classes of, 67 4, note Sand in mortar, its use, . 785 Sapphire, the gem, constitution of, 833 97 62 1034 568 567 Saturnine solutions, Scales of combining numbers, Scheele’s green, Selenic acid, whence procured, . Selenious acid, whence obtained, Selenium, derivation of the name— 56»-569 Selenium, properties of, . . 564 Sensibility of bodies, solid and liquid, to heat, . . 27 Silicic acid, how formed, . . 532 Silica, method of preparing (see also Fluorine), . . 533 Silica, or silicic acid, . 533-537 —, properties of, . . 535 , pure, how obtained, . 664 , , representatives of, 533 silicic acid, or silicious earth, 531 Silicates, Silicium, silicon, . Silicon, distribution of, , how to obtaip, -, silicium, 531 531 531 532 531 Silver, as a conductor of heat and electricity, . . . 901 Silver, chloride of, . . 964, 967 chromate of, how pro- duced, Silver, colour and lustre of, . , distribution of, how ob- tained pure, Silver, how dissolved, , nitrate of, -, how obtained, 857 960 957 958 964 96'6 , —, or lunar caustic, 965 , precipitable by sulphu- retted hydrogen, . . 95' Silver, protoxide of, -, salts of, the two impor- 972 963 tant, ists for, in glass-staining, ^ definition of, . entary body, reals, . 964 970 962 8 13 594 i
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