[17]Mercuric oxide made by heating quicksilver in air.
[18]Nitrous oxide: see [p. 182].
[19]Mercuric oxide made by heating mercuric nitrate.
[20]See the author’s Essays in Historical Chemistry—“Priestley, Cavendish, Lavoisier and La Révolution Chimique.”
INDEX
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] Q [R] [S] [T] U [V] [W] X Y Z
A Aikin, Anna Lætitia, [33], [43]; her poem Corsica, [70], [75]. Aikin, John, [32], [33], [36], [121]. Aikin, Lucy, [38]. Air, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of, Priestley’s treatise on, [77], [103], [167] et seq. Air, Fixed, [175], [176]; Priestley’s view of its nature, [220]. Air, Inflammable, [179], [220]. Alkaline Air (Ammonia), Priestley’s isolation of, [185]; its properties, [186]; decomposition of by electricity, [210]; nature of, [221]. Ammonia Gas, Priestley’s discovery of, [185]; its properties, [186]. Ammonium Sesquicarbonate, Synthesis of, by Priestley, [186].
B Barbauld, Mrs (Anna Lætitia Aikin), [33], [160]. Belloc, Madame, account of the Priestleys, [2]; of the times of Priestley, [5]; her account of Mrs Priestley, [49]. Bewley, Richard, his mephitic julep, [79]. Birmingham Riots of 1791, [120] et seq. Bolton, H. Carrington, his account of the Lunar Society, [96]. Boulton, Matthew, founds the Lunar Society of Birmingham, [94]. Boyle, Robert, his recognition that different elastic fluids exist, [174]. Bright, Henry A., his account of the Warrington Academy, [34]. Burke, Edmund, his denunciation of Priestley, [147].
C Canton, John, his school, [9], [62]. “Conversion of Water into Air, Seeming,” Priestley’s work on, [216]. Corruptions of Christianity, Priestley’s, [106].
D Darwin, Erasmus, his connection with the Birmingham Lunar Society, [94], [95]. Daventry Academy, [18]. Dephlogisticated Air (Oxygen), Priestley’s discovery of, [184], [192] et seq. Doctrine of Phlogiston Established, Priestley’s last scientific work, [162].