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Index
- Diamond, combustion of, 11.
- Diffused gold particles, 413.
- Disinfecting liquid, Labarraque's, 222.
- Education, mental, 463.
- Elasticity of the condensed gases, 122.
- Electric force and conservation of force, 456.
- Escape of gases confined by mercury, 217.
- Ether, nature of the, 368.
- Euchlorine, liquefied, 92, 110.
- , solidified, 110.
- Expansion affects decomposition, 219.
- Experimental relations of gold to light, 391.
- Figures, acoustical, 314.
- Films of gold, 395, 405.
- produced by phosporus, 405
- , their cgaructar, 406.
- , thinned, 407.
- , heated, 408.
- , pressed,
- , in the microscope, 408.
- Films of metals by phosphorus, 409.
- Flame, sound of, in tubes, 21.
- Fluid chlorine, 85, 95, 129.
- Fluidity of sulphur at common temperatures, 212.
- Fluosilicon, liquefied, 104.
- Force, its conservation, 443, 460.
- Force, lines of, 369.
- Forces of matter, 369.
- Forms of fluids on vibrating surfaces, 335.
- Freezing process, 374.
- Freezing water, its conditions, 372.
- , exclusion of extraneous matter, 373.
- Furnaces for glass making, 246, 284.
- Gas-lamp, portable, 134, 167.
- Gas, transference of heat by, 221.
- Gases through capillary tubes, 5, 6.
- over mercury, 217.
- liquefied. 89, 96.
- solidified, 96.
- , non-condensable as yet, 116.
- Gauges for condensation, 91, 98.
- Glass for optical purposes, 231.
- , its colour affected by light, 142.
- , ruby, 428.
- tubes, their strength, 98.
- Gold, its relations to light, 391.
- , polarized light, 435.
- Gold, its transparency, 395, 401.
- , effect of pressure, 397, 403, 404, 408.
- Gold-leaf, 393.
- , attenuated, 394.
- , effect of heat, 395.
- , effect of pressure, 397.
- Gold divided by deflagration, 401.
- Gold deflagrations, 401.
- , their metallic character, 428.
- and polarized light, 438.
- Gold films by posphorus, 405.
- , their metghag character, 429.
- , and polarized light, 439
- Gold in diffused particles, 411:
- , ruby fluid, 411.
- , amethystine fluid, 413.
- , blue fluid, 417, 420.
- , state of the gold tested, 413.
- , spontaneous change, 414, 416.
- , examined by light, 415, 416, 417.
- , heated, 418.
- , changed by saline matter, 419.
- , its metallic character, 430.
- , degree of division, 423.
- , quantity present, 423.
- , separated from water, dried, 425.
- , by various substances. 425.
- Gold, size of its particles, 416.
- Gold fluids, examined by coloured rays of light, 442.
- , and polarized light, 439.
- Gold ruby fluid, 411, 418, 420.
- , changed by salts, 419.
- ,, its metallic character, 430.
- Gold, blue fluid, 417, 420.
- Gold, violet fluid, 420.
- Gold reduced by phosphorus, 405, 411,.
- various substances, 425.
- organic tissues, 427, 432.
- heat. 427.
- Gold particles polarize light. 441.
- Gravitation force, considered, 446, 462.
- its definition insufficient, 446.
- ,time?, 371.
- Gravity, its definition inconsistent with the conservation of force, 446, 449, 463.
- , Newton's opinion of its nature,451.
- Gunpowder, its action on lead, 142.
- Heat, its effect on gold, 395, 403, 4(B.
- , its effect on silver, 398.
- produces sounds amongst metals, 311.
- Heat force and conservation of force, 453.
- Heavy glass, materials, 241.
- , composition, 275.
- , manufacture of, 231.
- , furnaces, 246, 284.
- , use of platinum powder, 270, 290.
- , stirring of it, 266, 271.
- , bubbles, 269.
- , effect of continued heat, 265.
- , annealing, .
- , general qualities, 275.
- , changeability, 279
- , refractive and dispersive power, 275
