General Science

by Bertha May Clark

• Unleavened bread, [233].
  

• Vacuum, sound in, [268].
  
• Vapor, in atmosphere, [36-38].
  
• Vaporization, heat of, [32].
  
• Varnish, on candies, [253].
  
• Vegetable matter, and coal, [30].
  
  • and gas, [30].
    
  • and oil, [30].
    
• Veins, formation in rock, [72-73].
  
• Velocity, of sound, [271-272].
  
• Ventilation, [21-24], [54].
  
  • need of, [38].
    
• Vibration, of strings, [286-290].
  
  • sympathetic, [274-277].
    
• Viola, [295].
  
• Violin, [295].
  
• Violoncello, [295].
  
• Vocal cords, [300].
  
• Voice, [300].
  
• Volt, [344].
  
• Voltage, [345].
  
• Voltaic cell, [306-308], [310].
  
• Voltmeter, [344].
  
• Volume, of a stream, [179-180].
  
  • relation of pressure of a gas, [95-96].
    

• Washing powders, [224-226].
  
  • soda, [229].
    
• Water, action in nature, [70-74].
  
  • amount used daily per person, [181].
    
  • and hydrogen, [79].
    
  • and oxygen, [79], [80].
    
  • as solvent, [70-71].
    
  • boiling, [77].
    
  • boiling point, [15].
    
  • composition, [79-80].
    
  • condensation, [33].
    
  • dams and reservoirs, [214-216].
    
  • density, [11].
    
  • distilled, [34], [77].
    
  • drinking, [75-77], [195-201].
    
  • electrolysis, [79-80].
    
  • evaporation, [33-34].
    
  • expansion, [9-10], [41-42].
    
  • filtration, [77].
    
  • freezing, [40-41].
    
  • hard, [225].
    
  • heat of fusion, [40].
    
  • impurities, [76-77].
    
  • in atmosphere, [36-38].
    
  • in food, [75].
    
  • in human body, [75].
    
  • in vegetables, [75].
    
  • influence on climate, [29], [40].
    
  • irrigation, [193-194].
    
  • minerals in, [70-71].
    
  • ocean, [265].
    
  • power, [176-180].
    
  • precipitates, [72], [73].
    
  • pressure, [208-211], [214-216].
    
  • purification, [77].
    
  • rain, [225].
    
  • running, value of, [178-180].
    
  • source of, [78].
    
  • steam, [32].
    
  • waves, [145-147].
    
  • weight, [208-209], [215].
    
  • wells, [195-201].
    
  • wheels, [176-180].
    
  • work under, [203-205].
    
• Water supply, and forests, [216-217].
  
  • cost, [212-214].
    
  • of city, [206-212], [217].
    
• Watt, [351].
  
• Waves, heat, [145-147].
  
  • light, [145-147].
    
  • sound, [268], [272-274].
    
  • water, [145-147].
    
• Weather, bureau, [87-91].
  
  • forecasts, [38-39], [86-88].
    
  • relation of water to, [29], [40].
    
• Weather maps, [89-91].
  
• Wedge, and inclined plane, [166].
  
• Weight, of air, [86].
  
  • of water, [208-209], [215].
    
• Welding, by electricity, [315].
  
• Wells, [195-201].
  
  • drilled, [199].
    
  • driven, [196-197].
    
• Wheel and axle, [169-171].
  
  • cogwheels, [170].
    
  • windlass, [169].
    
• Wheelbarrow as lever, [160-161].
  
• White light, nature of, [135].
  
• Wind instruments, [297-301].
  
• Windlass, [169].
  
• Windmill, [174-175], [180-182].
  
• Winds, [24].
  
• Wine, [232], [234].
  
• Wood, as source of charcoal, [58].
  
  • ashes in soap making, [223].
    
  • in paper making, [219].
    
  • preservation, [253-254].
    
• Wool, bleaching, [241].
  
  • dyeing, [245-247].
    
• Work, [156-186].
  
  • and steam, [183-184].
    
  • and water, [176-180].
    
  • conservation, [174-175].
    
  • formula, [157].
    
  • machines, [157-175].
    
  • unit of, [172-173].
    
  • waste, [173].
    
• Woven designs in cloth, [249].
  

• Yeast, [234-236].
  
  • wild, [235-236].
    

• Zinc, in galvanizing iron, [49].
  
  • in making hydrogen, [80].
    
  • in voltaic cell, [307-308].
    

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