INDEX.
VOL. II.
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64.
Chance’s flatting and annealing kilns forglass, 32.
Charcoal for gunpowder, 134-138.
Chemical constitution of glass, 5.
examination of gold ores, 71.
44 or white bottle-glass, 20.
“ properties of glass, 9.
Chloride of silver, 752.
Chondrin, 48,50.
Chrome iron ore, 699.
" " oxide of chromium in, 700.
Chromium oxalate, 498.
Citrate of magnesia, granular effervescent,350.
Cocoa-nut oil, 463.
Cod-liver oil, 478.
Cod sounds, 53.
Coinage, history of, 96.
Coining, adjusting fillets, 100.
" Annealing blanks, 101.
*• cutting out blanks, 100.
44 die-stamping, 102.
'* edge-rolling or marking, 101.
“ weighing individual coins, 102.
Coins, manufacture of, 98.
Collodion, 132.
“ manufacture of, 132.
“ uses of, 133.
Colonia powder, 441.
Coloured flint-glass, 45.
" glass, 44.
Colza oil, 467.
Common salt as a manure, 378.
“ adulterations of, 412.
" manufacture of, 411.
“ medical action of, 413.
“ native, 411.u properties of, 412.
Comparative fusibility of glasses, 5.
Composition of flint-glass, 24.
“ glass, 1, 3.
“ native gold, 68.
“ plate-glass, 22.
pots for glass-melting, 19.
“ window-glass, 21.
Compounds of gold, 109.
Constituents of plants, 358.
Continental glass furnaces, 15.
Copperas, 277.
Copper oxalate, 499.
Coprolites, 371.
Corrosive sublimate, 413.
“ “ manufacture of, 413.
“ " properties of, 414.
Cotton-seed oil, 468.
Court plaster, 53.
Cream of tartar, 947.
Croton oil, 468.
Crown-glass, 29.
M manufacture of, 29.
Crucible for melting glass, 18.
44 steel, 854.
Crystals of gold, 67
Cullet, 11.
Cupellation of gold, 90.
u the assay piece, 118.
Currying, 345.
Cutting and polishing flint-glass, 36.
Cyanides of iron, 278.
Cylinder or sheet-glass, 30.
A
Acids, action of, on glass, 10.
Acrolein, 476.
Alchemy and alchemists, 56.
Alloys, gold, 94.
Almond oil, 462.
“ soap, 547.
Alumina in glass, 11.
Aluminium oxalate, 499.
Amalgamation of gold ores, 82.Amalgam , native. 739.
Ammonia powder, 441.
Ammonium oxalate, 499.
" salts as manure, 367.Analyses of Bohemian glass, 20.
“ of gelatin, 49.
'• of green bottle-glass, 20.
44 of white bottle-glass, 20.
A ncient glass, analyses of, 4.
Animal fats, 477.
44 perfumes, 549.
Annealing and flattening furnace, glass,*' of glass, 7,17.
" ovens, 17.
Apatite, Norwegian, 370.
Argentiferous galena, 739.
Argenite, 738.
Arquerite, 739.
Arsenic in glass, 11.
Asbestos, 352.
Assaying gold, 114-123.Anriferousdeposits, method of examining,
B
Barilla, 219.
Barium oxalate, 498.
Bark mill, 326.
Baryta in glass, 11.
Beech oil, 462.
Beet-root sugar manufacture, 894.
Ben oil, 462.
Bicarbonate of soda, 834.
Bismuth oxalate, 499.
Bi tartrate of potash, 947.
Blood as manure, 368.
Blue glass, 44.
Bohemian glass, 20.
Bologna phial, 6.
Bone and bone ash as manures, 368.Bordeaux phosphate, 371.
Bottle-glass, analyses of, 5.
" green, 19.
Bottle-making, 28.
Brazilian isinglass, 62.
Brimstone, 914.
Brittleness of glass, 6.
Bromide of ammonium, 230.
“ potassium, 230.
Bromyrite, or bromide of silver, 739.
C
Cacao oil, 462.
Cadmium oxalate, 498.
Calcium oxalates, 497.
California , discovery of gold in, 60.Calomel , 410.
Caoutchouc . See India-rubber.Caoutchouc of oil, 470.
Casing glass, 46.
Casting plate-glass, 34.
Castor oil, 467.
“ cold-drawn, 468.
“ extraction of, 467.
Caustic potash, 673.
“ soda, 835.
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D
De la Bastie’s hardened glass, 36.Dentifrices, 547.
Description of furnaces for hardening glass,38-43.
Devitrification of glass, 8
Devitrified glass, 7.
Distilled perfumes, 543.
Drying oil, 469.
Dualine, 441.
Dynamical theory of heat, 160.
Dynamite, 436.
“ blasting with, 438.
** detonators for, 436.
“ electrical machine for firing, 437“ examples of blasting with, 439.44 firing of, 437.
“ invention of, 436.
“ manufacture, 436.
« No. 2,441.
E
Effects of moist air on glass, 9.
Elastic thread, 204.
Electrum, 420.
Emerald, imitation, 45.
Epsom salts, 351.
Esparto grass, 516.
Essence of lavender, 546.
Essential oils, 543.
Etymology of glass, 1.
Exhaustion of land, 361.
Experiments on glass devitrification, 8.Explosive force of various compounds, 443.
F
Farm crops, 360.
" exports, 360.
" -yard manure, 364.
Faults in glass, 13.
Fining glass, 13.
“ plate-glass, 33.
Fish oils, 478.
,f testing, 484.
Flashing and casing glass, 46.
Flattening furnace, glass, 31.
Flesh and fish as manures, 368.
Flint-glass, 23.
coloured, 45.
“ lenses, 26.
Flower farming, 547.
“ perfumes, 547.
Fluxes for glass painting, 47.
Foreign crown-glass, 20.
Freezing machines, 193-198.
Fulminating mercury, 415.
Furnaces for glass, 14.
“ for hardening glass, 38- 43.
G
Galena, 280.
Gallo-tannic acid, 316.
“ decompositions of, 317.
“ preparation of, 316.
“ properties of, 316.
14 action of alcohol and acids on, 48.“ action of alkalies on, 48.
44 action of tannic acids on, 49.
" analyses of, 49.
“ chondrin, 50.
" from bones and Ivory, 50.
“ from hides, 60.
“ preparation of, 49.
“ properties of, 48.
German silver, 420.
Glass— 1—48.
Glass, analyses of ancient and modern, 6.
“ annealing of, 7.
“ annealing ovens, 17.
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