340

CHAP. III.--Description of the Calorimeter, or
Apparatus for measuring Caloric, 343

CHAP. IV.--Of the Mechanical Operations for
Division of Bodies, 357

SECT. I.--Of Trituration, Levigation, and Pulverization, ibid.

SECT. II.--Of Sifting and Washing Powdered
Substances, 361

SECT. III.--Of Filtration, 363

SECT. IV.--Of Decantation, 365

CHAP. V.--Of Chemical means for Separating the
Particles of Bodies from each other without
Decomposition, and for Uniting them again, 367

SECT. I.--Of the Solution of Salts, 368

SECT. II.--Of Lixiviation, 373

SECT. III.--Of Evaporation, 375

SECT. IV.--Of Cristallization, 379

SECT. V.--Of Simple Distillation, 384

SECT. VI.--Of Sublimation, 388

CHAP. VI.--Of Pneumato-chemical Distillations,
Metallic Dissolutions, and some other operations
which require very complicated instruments, 390

SECT. I.--Of Compound and Pneumato-chemical
Distillations, ibid.

SECT. II.--Of Metallic Dissolutions, 398

SECT. III.--Apparatus necessary in Experiments
upon Vinous and Putrefactive Fermentations, 401

SECT. IV.--Apparatus for the Decomposition of
Water, 404

CHAP. VII.--Of the Composition and Use of
Lutes, 407

CHAP. VIII.--Of Operations upon Combustion
and Deflagration, 414

SECT. I.--Of Combustion in general, ibid.

SECT. II.--Of the Combustion of Phosphorus, 418

SECT. III.--Of the Combustion of Charcoal, 422

SECT. IV.--Of the Combustion of Oils, 426

SECT. V.--Of the Combustion of Alkohol, 433

SECT. VI.--Of the Combustion of Ether, 435

SECT. VII.--Of the C