A manual of chemistry : theoretical and practical, inorganic and organic, adapted to the requirements of students of medicine / by Arthur P. Luff and Hugh C.H. Candy.

  • Arthur P. Luff
Date:
1910
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Credit: A manual of chemistry : theoretical and practical, inorganic and organic, adapted to the requirements of students of medicine / by Arthur P. Luff and Hugh C.H. Candy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FIG. TAGT3 1. Victor Meyer's vapour-density apparatus . . 35 2. Beckinann's apparatus for determining the depres- sion of the freezing point .... 38 3. Diagrammatic illustration of osmosis and osmotic pressure ....... 39 4. Graph showing the periodic character of the relation between atomic volumes and atomic weights from lithium to potassium . . . .80 5. Preparation of hydrogen from zinc and sulphuric acid 91 6. Preparation of hydrogen from potassium and water 92 7. Formation of water by the combustion of hydrogen 95 8. Apparatus for diffusion of gases .... 96 9. Experimental illustration of the diffusion of gases 98 10. Preparation of oxygen ..... 102 11. Electrolysis of water ...... 103 12. Combustion of steel wire in oxygen . . . 108 13. Formation of water by the explosion of hydrogen and oxygen in the Cavendish eudiometer . .116 14. Hofmann's experiment to show composition of steam 117 15. The Hempel pipette . . . . . .134 16. The Hempel burette 134 17. Diffusion apparatus for proving air to be a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen . . . .137 18. Haldane's apparatus for the estimation of small quantities of carbon dioxide, or other constitu- ent, in a sample of air . . . . 141 19. Preparation of nitrogen monoxide . . . 146 20. Preparation of nitrogen dioxide . . . .148 21. Preparation and collection of ammonia gas . . 161 22. Decomposition of ammonia gas by passage of elec- tric sparks . . . . . . .164 23. Preparation and collection of chlorine . . 171
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