BY CAMPBELL MORFIT,
PRACTICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMIST.
With 170 Engravings on Wood.
This work is based upon the most recent discoveries in Science and improvements in Art, and presents a thorough exposition of the principles and practice of the trade in all their minutiæ. The experience and ability of the author have enabled him to produce A MORE COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE BOOK upon the subject than any extant. The whole arrangement is designed with a view to the scientific enlightenment, as well as the instrucion of the manufacturer, and its contents are such as to render it not only A STANDARD GUIDE BOOK TO THE OPERATIVE, but also an authoritative work of reference for the Chemist and the Student.
An examination of the annexed table of contents will show the invaluable usefulness of the work, the practical features of which are illustrated by upwards of ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD.
The following synopsis embraces only the main heads of each Chapter and Paragraph.
Chap. 1. Introductory Remarks.
Chap. 2. The Dignity of the Art and its Relations to Science.
Chap. 3. Affinity and Chemical Equivalents:—Explanation of.
Chap. 4. Alkalies.—Lime, Potassa, Soda, Ammonia.
Chap. 5. Alkalimetry.
Chap. 6. Acids.—Carbonic, Sulphuric, Hydrochloric, Nitric, Boracic, Acidimetry.
Chap. 7. Origin and Composition of Fatty Matters.
Chap. 8. Saponifiable Fats.—Oils of Almond, Olive, Mustard, Beech, Poppy, Rapeseed, Grapeseed; Nut Oil, Linseed Oil, Castor Oil, Palm Oil, (processes for bleaching it;) Coco Butter, Nutmeg Butter, Galum Butter, Athamantine.
Chap. 9. Adulteration of Oils.
Chap. 10. Action of Acids upon Oils.
Chap. 11. Volatile Oils.—The Properties of, and their applicability to the Manufacture of Soaps.
Chap. 12. Volatile Oils:—Their Origin and Composition; Table of their Specific Gravities.
Chap. 13. Essential Oils:—The Adulterations of, and the modes of detecting them.
Chap. 14. Wax:—Its Properties and Composition.
Chap. 15. Resins:—Their Properties and Composition; Colophony and Gallipot.
Chap. 16. Animal Fats and Oils:—Lard, Mutton Suet, Beef-tallow, Beef-marrow, Bone-fat, Soap-grease, Oil-lees, Kitchen-stuff, Human-fat, Adipocire, Butter, Fish-oil, Spermaceti, Delphinine, Neats feet Oil.
Chap. 17. The Constituents of Fats, their Properties and Composition: Stearine, Stearic Acid and Salts; Margarine, Margaric Acid and Salts; Olein, Oleic Acid and Salts; Cetine, Cetylic Acid; Phocenine, Phocenic Acid and Salts; Butyrine, Butyric Acid and Salts; Caproic, Capric Acid; Hircine, Hircic Acid; Cholesterine.
Chap. 18. Basic Constituents of Fats:—Glycerin, Ethal.
Chap. 19. Theory of Saponification.
Chap. 20. Utensils:—Steam Series, Bugadiers or Ley Vats, Soap Frames, Caldrons, &c.
Chap. 21. The Systemized arrangement for a Soap Factory.
Chap. 22. Remarks,—Preliminary to the Process for Making Soap.
Chap. 23. Hard Soaps:—"Cutting Process;" Comparative Value of Oils and Fats as Soap ingredient, with Tables; White, Mottled, Marseilles, Yellow, Yankee Soaps; English Yellow and White Soap, Coco Soap, Palm Soap, Butter Soap, English Windsor Soap, French Windsor Soap, Analyses of Soaps.
Chap. 24. Process for Making Soap:—Preparation of the Leys, Empatage, Relargage, Coction, Mottling, Cooling.
Chap. 25. Extemporaneous Soaps:—Lard, Medicinal, "Hawes," "Maquer," and "Darcet's" Soaps.
Chap. 26. Silicated Soaps:—Flint, Sand, "Dunn's," "Davis's" Soaps.
Chap. 27. Patent Soaps.—Dextrine, Salinated Soaps, Soap from Hardened Fat.
Chap. 28. Anderson's Improvements.
Chap. 29. Soft Soaps:—Process for Making, Crown Soaps, "Savon Vert."
Chap. 30. The Conversion of Soft Soaps into Hard Soaps.
Chap. 31. Frauds in Soap Making and Means for their Detection.
Chap. 32. Earthy Soaps, Marine Soap. Metallic Soaps. Ammoniacal Soap.
Chap. 33. Soap from Volatile Oils:—Starky's Soap, Action of Alkalies upon Essential Oils.
Chap. 34. "Savons Acides" or Oleo-acidulated Soap.
Chap. 35. Toilet Soaps:—Purification of Soaps, Admixed Soap, Cinnamon, Rose, Orange-flower, Bouquet, Benzoin, Cologne, Vanilla, Musk, Naples, Kasan Soaps, Flotant Soaps, Transparent Soaps, Soft Soaps, Shaving Cream; Remarks.
Chap. 36. Areometers and Thermometers:—their use and value.
Chap. 37. Weights and Measures.
Chap. 38. Candles.
Chap. 39. Illumination.
Chap. 40. Philosophy of Flame.
Chap. 41. Raw Material for Candles:—Modes of Rendering Fats, Wilson's Steam Tanks.
Chap. 42. Wicks:—Their use and action. Cutting Machines.
Chap. 43. Of the Manufacture of Candles.
Chap. 44. Dipped Candles:—Improved Machinery for facilitating their Manufacture.
Chap. 45. Material of Candles:—Process for Improving its Quality.
Chap. 46. Moulded Candles:—Improved Machinery for facilitating their Manufacture.—"Vaxceme," or Summer Candles.
Chap. 47. Stearic Acid Candles:—Adamantine and Star Candles.
Chap. 48. Stearin Candles:—Braconnot's and Morfit's Process.
Chap. 49. Sperm Candles.
Chap. 50. Palmine, Palm Wax, Coco Candles.
Chap. 51. Wax Candles:—Mode of Bleaching the Wax, with drawings of the apparatus requisite therefor; Bougies, Cierges, Flambeaux.
Chap. 52. Patent Candles:—"Azotized," Movable Wick and Goddard's Candles; Candles on Continuous Wick; Water and Hour Bougies, Perfumed Candles.
Chap. 53. Concluding Remarks. Vocabulary.
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