§ 4. Various Stones, &c.
| Opake green Italian serpentine, or gabro of the Florentines | | 2.4295 |
| Coarse Briancon chalk | | 2.7274 |
| Spanish chalk | | 2.7902 |
| Foliated lapis ollaris of Dauphiny | | 2.7687 |
| Ditto ditto from Sweden | | 2.8531 |
| Muscovy talc | | 2.7917 |
| Black mica | | 2.9004 |
| Common schistus or slate | | 2.6718 |
| New slate | | 2.8535 |
| White rasor hone | | 2.8763 |
| Black and white hone | | 3.1311 |
| Rhombic or Iceland cristal | | 2.7151 |
| Pyramidal calcareous spar | | 2.7141 |
| Oriental or white antique alabaster | | 2.7302 |
| Green Campan marble | | 2.7417 |
| Red Campan marble | | 2.7242 |
| White Carara marble | | 2.7168 |
| White Parian marble | | 2.8376 |
| Various kinds of calcareous stones | }from | 1.3864 |
| used in France for building. | }to | 2.3902 |
| Heavy spar | | 4.4300 |
| White fluor | | 3.1555 |
| Red ditto | | 3.1911 |
| Green ditto | | 3.1817 |
| Blue ditto | | 3.1688 |
| Violet ditto | | 3.1757 |
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| Red scintilant zeolite from Edelfors | | 2.4868 |
| White scintilant zeolite | | 2.0739 |
| Cristallized zeolite | | 2.0833 |
| Black pitch stone | | 2.0499 |
| Yellow pitch stone | | 2.0860 |
| Red ditto | | 2.6695 |
| Blackish ditto | | 2.3191 |
| Red porphyry | | 2.7651 |
| Ditto of Dauphiny | | 2.7033 |
| Green serpentine | | 2.8960 |
| Black ditto of Dauphiny, called variolite | | 2.9339 |
| Green ditto from Dauphiny | | 2.9883 |
| Ophites | | 2.9722 |
| Granitello | | 3.0626 |
| Red Egyptian granite | | 2.6541 |
| Beautiful red granite | | 2.7609 |
| Granite of Girardmas | | 2.7163 |
| Pumice stone | | .9145 |
| Lapis obsidianus | | 2.3480 |
| Pierre de Volvic | | 2.3205 |
| Touch stone | | 2.4153 |
| Basaltes from Giants Causeway | | 2.8642 |
| Ditto prismatic from Auvergne | | 2.4153 |
| Glass gall | | 2.8548 |
| Bottle glass | | 2.7325 |
| Green glass | | 2.6423 |
| White glass | | 2.8922 |
| St Gobin cristal | | 2.4882 |
| Flint glass | | 3.3293 |
| Borax glass | | 2.6070 |
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| Seves porcelain | | 2.1457 |
| Limoges ditto | | 2.3410 |
| China ditto | | 2.3847 |
| Native sulphur | | 2.0332 |
| Melted sulphur | | 1.9907 |
| Hard peat | | 1.3290 |
| Ambergrease | | .9263 |
| Yellow transparent amber | | 1.0780 |
§ 5. Liquids.
| Distilled water | | | | 1.0000 |
| Rain water | | | | 1.0000 |
| Filtered water of the Seine | | | | 1.00015 |
| Arcueil water | | | | 1.00046 |
| Avray water | | | | 1.00043 |
| Sea water | | | | 1.0263 |
| Water of the Dead Sea | | | | 1.2403 |
| Burgundy wine | | | | .9915 |
| Bourdeaux ditto | | | | .9939 |
| Malmsey Madeira | | | | 1.0382 |
| Red beer | | | | 1.0338 |
| White ditto | | | | 1.0231 |
| Cyder | | | | 1.0181 |
| Highly rectified alkohol | | | | .8293 |
| Common spirits of wine | | | | .8371 |
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| Alkohol | 15 pts. | water | 1 part. | .8527 |
| 14 | | 2 | .8674 |
| 13 | | 3 | .8815 |
| 12 | | 4 | .8947 |
| 11 | | 5 | .9075 |
| 10 | | 6 | .9199 |
| 9 | | 7 | .9317 |
| 8 | | 8 | .9427 |
| 7 | | 9 | .9519 |
| 6 | | 10 | .9594 |
| 5 | | 11 | .9674 |
| 4 | | 12 | .9733 |
| 3 | | 13 | .9791 |
| 2 | | 14 | .9852 |
| 1 | | 15 | .9919 |
| Sulphuric ether | | | | .7394 |
| Nitric ether | | | | .9088 |
| Muriatic ether | | | | .7298 |
| Acetic ether | | | | .8664 |
| Sulphuric acid | | | | 1.8409 |
| Nitric ditto | | | | 1.2715 |
| Muriatic ditto | | | | 1.1940 |
| Red acetous ditto | | | | 1.0251 |
| White acetous ditto | | | | 1.0135 |
| Distilled ditto ditto | | | | 1.0095 |
| Acetic ditto | | | | 1.0626 |
| Formic ditto | | | | .9942 |
| Solution of caustic ammoniac, | or volatil alkali fluor | | | .8970 |
|
| Essential or volatile oil | of turpentine | | | .8697 |
| Liquid turpentine | | | | .9910 |
| Volatile oil of lavender | | | | .8938 |
| Volatile oil of cloves | | | | 1.0363 |
| Volatile oil of cinnamon | | | | 1.0439 |
| Oil of olives | | | | .9153 |
| Oil of sweet almonds | | | | .9170 |
| Lintseed oil | | | | .9403 |
| Oil of poppy seed | | | | .9288 |
| Oil of beech mast | | | | .9176 |
| Whale oil | | | | .9233 |
| Womans milk | | | | 1.0203 |
| Mares milk | | | | 1.0346 |
| Ass milk | | | | 1.0355 |
| Goats milk | | | | 1.0341 |
| Ewe milk | | | | 1.0409 |
| Cows milk | | | | 1.0324 |
| Cow whey | | | | 1.0193 |
| Human urine | | | | 1.0106 |
§ 6. Resins and Gums
| Common yellow or white rosin | 1.0727 |
| Arcanson | 1.0857 |
| Galipot(A) | 1.0819 |
| Baras(A) | 1.0441 |
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| Sandarac | 1.0920 |
| Mastic | 1.0742 |
| Storax | 1.1098 |
| Opake copal | 1.1398 |
| Transparent ditto | 1.0452 |
| Madagascar ditto | 1.0600 |
| Chinese ditto | 1.0628 |
| Elemi | 1.0182 |
| Oriental anime | 1.0284 |
| Occidental ditto | 1.0426 |
| Labdanum | 1.1862 |
| Ditto in tortis | 2.4933 |
| Resin of guaiac | 1.2289 |
| Ditto of jallap | 1.2185 |
| Dragons blood | 1.2045 |
| Gum lac | 1.1390 |
| Tacamahaca | 1.0463 |
| Benzoin | 1.0924 |
| Alouchi(B) | 1.0604 |
| Caragna(C) | 1.1244 |
| Elastic gum | .9335 |
| Camphor | .9887 |
| Gum ammoniac | 1.2071 |
| Sagapenum | 1.2008 |
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| Ivy gum(D) | 1.2948 |
| Gamboge | 1.2216 |
| Euphorbium | 1.1244 |
| Olibanum | 1.1732 |
| Myrrh | 1.3600 |
| Bdellium | 1.3717 |
| Aleppo Scamony | 1.2354 |
| Smyrna ditto | 1.2743 |
| Galbanum | 1.2120 |
| Assafoetida | 1.3275 |
| Sarcocolla | 1.2684 |
| Opoponax | 1.6226 |
| Cherry tree gum | 1.4817 |
| Gum Arabic | 1.4523 |
| Tragacanth | 1.3161 |
| Basora gum | 1.4346 |
| Acajou gum(E) | 1.4456 |
| Monbain gum(F) | 1.4206 |
| Inspissated juice of liquorice | 1.7228 |
| —— Acacia | 1.5153 |
| —— Areca | 1.4573 |
| Terra Japonica | 1.3980 |
| Hepatic aloes | 1.3586 |
| Socotrine aloes | 1.3795 |
| Inspissated juice of St John's wort | 1.5263 |
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| Opium | 1.3366 |
| Indigo | .7690 |
| Arnotto | .5956 |
| Yellow wax | .9648 |
| White ditto | .9686 |
| Ouarouchi ditto(G) | .8970 |
| Cacao butter | .8916 |
| Spermaceti | .9433 |
| Beef fat | .9232 |
| Veal fat | .9342 |
| Mutton fat | .9235 |
| Tallow | .9419 |
| Hoggs fat | .9368 |
| Lard | .9478 |
| Butter | .9423 |
[Note A: Resinous juices extracted in France from the Pine. Vide Bomare's Dict.]
[Note B: Odoriferous gum from the tree which produces the Cortex Winteranus. Bomare.]
[Note C: Resin of the tree called in Mexico Caragna, or Tree of Madness. Ibid.]
[Note D: Extracted in Persia and the warm countries from Hedera terrestris.—Bomare.]