Chemistry in daily life : popular lectures / by Dr. Lassar-Cohn ; translated by M.M. Pattison.

  • Lassar Cohn
Date:
1896
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Credit: Chemistry in daily life : popular lectures / by Dr. Lassar-Cohn ; translated by M.M. Pattison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURE IV. Mixed diet.—Butter.—Margarine.—Starch.—The sugars.— Ripening of fruits.—The diet of diabetic patients.— Fruit-sugar.—Bonbons.—Burnt sugar as a colouring material.—Cane sugar.—Bounties on exported sugar.— Saccharin.—The absorption of food.—Common salt.— Iron.—Importance of cooking.—Soups.—Bread making. —Boiling potatoes ........ LECTURE V. Quantity of food that must be consumed, and nutritive values of the chief foods.—Fermentation.—Wine.— Cider and perry.—Champagne.—Mead.—Koumiss.— Beer.— Malt.— Spirits.— Dry yeast [German yeast]. —Brandy. — Potato spirit.— Vinasse.— Spirit refining. —Absolute alcohol.—Methylated alcohol.—Liqueurs . 91 LECTURE VI. Wine vinegar.—Wood vinegar.—Glacial acetic acid.— Wood spirit.—Acetone.—Gunpowder.—Greek fire.— Fulminating mercury.—Guncotton.—Dynamite.—Col- lodion.— Blasting gelatin.— Cordite.— Wool.—• Cotton. —Silk.—Artificial wool [Shoddy].—Carbonising . . 120 LECTURE VIL Tanning.—Leather.—Removing hair from hides and softening them.—Tanning materials.—Barks.—Quebracho bark.— Sumach. — Tanning extracts. — Sole leather. — Alum tanning.—Glove leather.—Furriery.—Iron and chrome leather.—Chamois leather.—Wash leather.—Parchment. —Bleaching on meadows.—Blueing washed linen.— Bleaching by chlorine.—Bleaching powder.—Antichlors. —Eau de Javcllc. — Sulphurous acid. — Peroxide of hydrogen.— Dyeing.—Mordants.—Lakes.—Substantive colours.—Coal tar colours.—Indigo.—Alizarin.—Colour- ing pastes.—Colouring extracts from woods.—Logwood. —Calico printing 140