About the Book
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1887 Excerpt: ... Chemical analysis, certain principles of, 86, 37 importance of, in mineralogy, 17, 18 apparatus, list of, 71-79 symbols, table of, 37, 38 Chemicals for private laboratory, 72, 73 Chemistry, value of, in mineralogy, 17 Chlorate of potassium, symbol and atomic weight, 56 Chloride of ammonium, symbol and atomic weight, 59 test of, 59 of barium, test of, 60 symbol and atomic weight, 60 of calcium, preparation of, 61 symbol and atomic weight, 61 of nickel, way of obtaining, 133 of sodium, symbol and atomic weight, 57 test of, 57 use of, 57 Chlorine, process of obtaining, illus-trated and described, 45, 46 symbol and atomic weight, 45 use of, 46 Chlorite, a good sign in searching for corundum, 242 Chrome iron, components of, 235 ore, quantitative analysis of, 237 Chromite, constituents of, 235 Chromium, 235-238 before the blowpipe, 235 brittleness of, 235 color, 235 decomposition of the ore, 236 first notice of its occurrence in the commercial way, 236 gravity, 235 hardness, 235 its occurrence in the United States, 236 lustre, 235 solubility of, 236 streak, 235 Cinnabar, characteristics of, 221 Cleavage of minerals, 20 Coal-beds, cutting levels and drifts in, illustrated and described, 290, 291 of different benches, working, illustrated and described, 291 the slope in, illustrated and described, 268 Coal-mines, precautionary rules to pre-vent spontaneous combustion, 292 Cobalt, 238-240 color of, 239 compounds, detection of, under the blowpipe, 239 fusibility, 289 glance, 238 gravity, 239 inability to plate with, 239 metallic, nominal value, 239 minerals, localities of, 239 only present use of, 239 ores of, 238 preparation of, from the ore, 238, 239 separation of, from nickel, 240 Cocalico, 246 Color, importance of, in determining the nature of a substance, 20, 21...
