Chemistry
EXPERIMENTAL work in physical science rests ultimately upon the mechanical arts. It is true that in a well-appointed laboratory, where apparatus is collected together in greater or less profusion, the appeal is often very indirect, and to a student carrying out a set experimen...
A process of coating glass with aluminium has been lately discovered, which, if I mistake not, may be of immense service in special cases where a strongly adherent deposit is re...
5. Chapter 5§ 1. THE art of glass-blowing has the conspicuous advantage, from the point of view of literary presentation, of being to a great extent incommunicable. As in the case of other...
7. Chapter 7§ 52. As no instructions of any practical value in this art have, so far as I know, appeared in any book in English, though a great deal of valuable information has been given i...
9. Chapter 9This is an art which is usually deemed worthy of a treatise to itself, but for ordinary laboratory purposes it is a very simple matter--so simple, indeed, that the multiplicity...
6. Chapter 6The stem and platinum wire may now be protected by covering them with a little flint glass. For this purpose the flint-glass tube is pulled down till it will just slip over the...
4. Chapter 4EXPERIMENTAL work in physical science rests ultimately upon the mechanical arts. It is true that in a well-appointed laboratory, where apparatus is collected together in greater...
1. Chapter 13. Chapter 32. Chapter 2