The chemistry of commerce : a simple interpretation of some new chemistry in its relation to modern industry / by Robert Kennedy Duncan.

  • Duncan, Robert Kennedy, 1868-1914.
Date:
[1907]
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    Manganosilicide of aluminum, manufacture of, 104. Manufacturer, advice to the, 11. Manure, amount of, produced by horse, 62. “Mazza Separator/’ the, 95, 96. Meister, Lucius, and Briming, of Hochst, manufacturers of sulphuric acid, 34. Mercury, a catalyst, 28. Metallurgical operations, 40. Methane, marsh gas, 103. Methyl alcohol, 129, 130, 136, 139. Methyl salicylate, substitute for oil of wintergreen, 166, 167. Microbe inoculation, the new, 201-218. Mirbane, oil of, 169. Moissan, Professor Henri, elec¬ tric furnace, 100, 101. Monozite sand, used in manu¬ facture of gas-mantles, 74. Moore, Professor G., and dried nitrifying microbes, 51. Musk, artificial, 168, 171; nat¬ ural, 170. Naphthalene obtained from coal-tar, 36. Natural gas, 103. Nernst lamp, the, 77, 78, 79, 80. Neue Photographische Gesell- schaft, the, at Steglitz, 38. Nickel, action upon oleic acid, 40. Nicotine, artificial, 168. “Nitragin,” nitrifying microbes in portable form, 50, 51. Nitrate of soda, a nitrogenous manure, 47. Nitric acid, production of, 39; cost of, 54, 56. Nitrifying microbes, discovery of Hellriegel, 50; wholesale production of, 51. Nitrogen, fixation of, 42-66; power of, 42, 43; relation to life, 43,44; abundance, 43,44; “fixed,” 45, 49; “free,” 45, 49; tons per acre, 49, 52; ex¬ periments in burning, 52-57; power to unite with calcium, 58; future “fixation” as¬ sured, 65. Nitrogenous manure, 47, 58. Nurnberg licht, the, 86. Oil of cinnamon, substitute for, 169. Oil of mirbane, substitute for bitter almonds, 169. Oil of vitriol, sulphuric acid, manufacture and consump¬ tion of, 32-35. Oil of wintergreen, substitute for, 166, 167. Oleic acid transformed into stearic acid, 40. Opsonin defined, 202. Osmium lamp, the, 80, 81, 82. Ostwald, Professor, quoted, 29; “Catatype Process,” 38; process for the production of nitric acid, 39. Oxidation of air, 56, 57. Oxide of calcium (lime), 40. Oxides, glass forming, 120, 121. Oxyacetylene flame, 99. Oxygenated flame, 93, 94. Oxyhydrogen blow-pipe, 91. Paper, manufacture of, 222- 225.