Index.
495
- Heavy glass, colour, 276.
- , reflexion by, 277.
- , hardness, 278.
- , fusibility, 279.
- , its electric condition, 282.
- Historical statements, liquefaction of
- _gases, 124, 135.
- Holding the breath, 358.
- Hydrate of chlorine, 81.
- Hydriodic acid, liquefied, 103.
- , solidified, 104.
- Hydriodide of carbon, 51, 81.
- Hydrobromic acid, liquefied, 104.
- , solidified, 104.
- Hydrocarbons, new, 154.
- decomposed mechanically, 219.
- and sulphuric acid, 160, 170.
- Hydrochloric acid, liquefied,95,106,131.
- Hydrogen and carbon, new compounds of, 154.
- and chloride of silver, 31. Ice, very pure, 373.
- , exclgision of extraneous matter, 373.
- , cohesion of, 380,
- , its mutual adhesion, 373.
- , adhesion of other bodies to it, 374.
- , of irregular fusibility, 374.
- , and ice-cold water, 381.
- Iron, meteoric, 61.
- alloys, 80.
- deflagrations, 404.
- , and polarized light, 441.
- Jelly and ruby gold, 433.
- Labarraque's liquid, 222.
- Lamps, ventilation of, 362.
- Lead in shrapnel shells, changed, 141.
- , its adtion on gunpowder, 142.
- deflagration,
- , and polarized light, 440.
- Light affects purple tint of plate-glass, 142
- , its transverse vibrations, 357.
- , relation of metals to, 391, 435.
- , and gold films, 406.
- , and metallic deflagrations, 404.
- , and gold fluids, 45.
- Lighthouse lamp, ventilation, 362.
- Lime, native caustic, 2.
- Limit to vaporization, 199, 205.
- Lines of force, 369.
- Liquefaction of gases, 89, 96.
- Low temperatures for condensation, 100.
- Lungs, reparation of, 358.
- Lycopdium heaps, motion of, 332.
- Manufacture of heavy glass, 231.
- Matter, its nature, 7.
- Mental education, 463.
- Mercury vapour at common temperatures, 57.
- cannot confine gases, 217.
- Metallic character of divided gold, 428.
- Metallic deflagrations and light. 401, 404, 438.
- Metallic films by phosphorus, 409.
- hydrogen, 410
- Metals, their relations to light, 391, 435.
- , and polarized light, 1, 435.
- , part1c1es in planes, polarize light, 441
- Meteoric iron, 61.
- Motion of particles under vibration, 332.
- Musket balls in shrapnel shells, 141.
- Naphtha line and sul huric acid, 182.
- Native caustic lime, 2.
- New carburet of hydrogen, 163.
- Newton's opinion of the nature of gravity, 451.
- Nitrogen, test for minute portions of, 143.
- Nitrous oxide, liquefied, 93, 111, 117.
- , solidified, 111, 117.
- , pressure, 112, 117.
- Nitrous acid, solidified, 115.
- Nuclei of matter, 369.
- Observations on mental education, 463.
- Oil-gas, 168.
- , liqufied, 133.
- , fluids and hydrocarbons, 155.
- Olefiant gas, its mixed nature, 119.
- , liquefied, 102, 118.,
- , liquid, its pressure, 103, 120.
- Optical deceptions, peculiar, 291, 309.
- Optical glass, 231.
- , faults of, 235.
- Organic tissue staine by gold, 427, 432.
- Oxygen of silver in ammonia, 14.
- Oxygen, attempts to liquefy it, 122.
- 'Palladium deflagrations, 405.
- film, 409.
- and polarised light, 440.
- Particles on vibrating surfaces, 314, 332.
- Passage of gases through tubes, 5, 6.
- Peculiar acoustical figures, 314.
- class of optical decpetions, 291, 309.
- Perchloride of carbon, 30.
- Perspective, aërial, 215
- Phosphuretted hydrogen, liquefied, 105.
- Platinum in steel, 66, 71.
- film, 409.
- deflagrations, 405.
- and polarized light, 440.
- Ponderability of matter, 368.
- Polarized light and and metals, 401, 435.
- gold films, 401, 435.
- Portable gas-lamp, 167.
- Preparation of the lungs, 358.
- Preservation of rare fluids, 152.
- Pressure, its effect on gold, 397, 403, 408.
- , effect on silver, 399.
- Protochloride of carbon, 46.
- Purple tint of plate glass and light, 142.
