A catalogue of the various articles mentioned in the preceding pages, with the prices, explanations, &c.
The articles which have this mark * prefixed may be procured at 135, Washington-street, Boston.
| Cts. | |||
| Acetate of cobalt, produced by digesting the oxide of cobalt in strong vinegar, | |||
| * | Acetate of lead, (sugar of lead) procured by dissolving white lead in vinegar, and evaporating, | oz. | 6 |
| * | Acetic acid, vinegar concentrated by distillation, | pt. | 25 |
| * | Alcohol, rectified spirit of wine, | pt. | 25 |
| * | Alum, sulphate of alumine and potass, | oz. | 3 |
| * | Ammonia, (hartshorn) a volatile alkali, | oz. | 12 |
| * | Antimony, a dark porous metal, | oz. | 6 |
| * | Bees wax, a yellowish resinous substance procured from honey, or honey combs, | oz. | 6 |
| * | Bismuth, (tin glass) a reddish white metal, | oz. | 12 |
| * | Boracic acid, procured by adding sulphuric acid to a hot solution of borax; the acid crystallizes, | oz. | 100 |
| * | Brazil-wood, (red-wood,) | lb. | 6 |
| * | Borate of soda, or sub-borate of soda, (borax) is brought from the East-Indies in an impure state called tincal, | oz. | 6 |
| Burnish gold-size, and burnishers, may be had of Bittle and Cooper, Pemberton's-hill, Boston, prices various, | |||
| * | Camphor, obtained from a species of laurel tree, | oz. | 12 |
| * | Carbonate of copper, (French green) produced by adding a solution of super-carbonate of soda, to a hot solution of sulphate of copper, | lb. | 50 |
| * | Carbonate of lead, (white lead) is formed by exposing thin sheets of lead to the vapour of vinegar, after which they abstract the carbonic acid from the atmosphere, | lb. | 16 |
| * | Carbonate of strontia, a native mineral, | oz. | 50 |
| Carbonate of lime, (marble, chalk) a native earth, | |||
| * | Chlorate of potass, procured by passing a current of chlorine gas through a solution of pearl-ash, | oz. | 100 |
| * | Chrome yellow, a pigment, is formed by the combination of a metallic substance with the chromic acid, | oz. | 12 |
| * | Cobalt, (Zaffre) a metal of a reddish grey colour; when exposed to a gentle heat, it becomes oxidized and takes the form of a black powder, | oz. | 50 |
| * | Citric acid, procured from lemons, limes, &c., | oz. | 75 |
| * | Calomel, white sublimate of mercury, | oz. | 20 |
| * | Dragon's blood, a red mucilage extracted from a plant, | oz. | 10 |
| * | Fluate of lime, (fluor spar) is found in abundance in Derbyshire, England, its acid constituent has the peculiar property of dissolving glass, | lb. | 50 |
| * | Frankfort black, which takes its name from Frankfort, in Germany, is manufactured from the lees of wine, | oz. | 12 |
| * | Gamboge, a yellow opaque gum, or mucilage, | oz. | 16 |
| * | Glue, (gelatine) a jelly procured from skins of animals, | lb. | 25 |
| * | Gold bronze, gold in fine powder, | pwt. | 75 |
| * | Gold leaf, thin laminas of gold, | book | 45 |
| * | gum-arabic, a mucilaginous substance that exudes from certain trees in Arabia, | oz. | 6 |
| * | gum-asphaltum, a bitumen, or mineral pitch, | oz. | 8 |
| * | gum-copal, a hard transparent resin, | lb. | 40 |
| * | gum-elastic, (indian rubber, caoutchouc) exudes from trees in the West-Indies, | oz. | 8 |
| * | gum-sandarac, a resin, similar to rosin but much harder, | lb. | 100 |
| * | Gum-shellac, a compound, resinous substance, procured from the nests, or cells of an insect, | oz. | 6 |
| * | gum-mastic, a hard, transparent resin, | lb. | 100 |
| * | Ising-glass, a kind of transparent glue procured from various kinds of fish, | oz. | 25 |
| * | Lake, (drop lake) a rose coloured pigment, prepared from brazil wood, | oz. | 200 |
| * | Lead, a brown heavy metal, | lb. | 12 |
| Lime, an oxide of calcium, is procured by calcining lime stone, marble or chalk, | |||
| * | Linseed oil, is expressed from ground flaxseed, | pt. | 15 |
| * | Litharge, (gold litharge) an oxide of lead, | oz. | 4 |
| * | Litmus, a blue colouring vegetable, | oz. | 10 |
| * | Mercury, (quick silver) a metal that remains fluid in the common temperature of the atmosphere, | oz. | 8 |
| * | Muriate of ammonia, (sal ammoniac) is formed by adding muriatic acid to liquid ammonia, evaporating, &c., | oz. | 6 |
| Muriate of soda, (culinary salt) is procured by evaporating the water of the ocean, | |||
| * | Muriate of strontia, procured by dissolving native carbonate of strontia, in muriatic acid, and evaporating, | oz. | 75 |
| Muriate of lime, formed by evaporating a solution of marble in muriatic acid, | |||
| * | Muriatic acid, (marine acid, spirit of salt) is extracted from sea-salt, | oz. | 12 |
| * | Nitrate of ammonia, procured by dissolving carbonate of ammonia (common smelling salts) in nitric acid, | oz. | 20 |
| * | Nitrate of potass, (nitre, salt-petre) may be procured by adding nitric acid to a solution of sub-carbonate of potass, and crystallizing by evaporation, | oz. | 3 |
| * | Nitrate of strontia, procured the same as the muriate, | oz. | 75 |
| * | Nitric acid, (aquafortis) is obtained by distilling two parts of sulphuric acid, together with one part of salt-petre, | oz. | 12 |
| * | Nut galls, are formed on the leaves of a species of oak, | oz. | 6 |
| * | Olive oil, (sweet oil,) | oz. | 3 |
| * | Oil of cinnamon, extracted from cinnamon by distillation, | oz. | 75 |
| * | Oil of rosemary, procured also by distillation, | oz. | 25 |
| * | Orange lead, a scarlet pigment similar to red lead, | oz. | 3 |
| * | Oxide of manganese, a black powder consisting of a metal combined with oxygen, | oz. | 10 |
| * | Phosphorus, a simple substance procured from bones; its greatest peculiarity is extraordinary combustibility, | oz. | 200 |
| * | Phosphuret of lime, a combination of lime and phosphorus, | oz. | 200 |
| * | Plumbago, (black lead) a carburet of iron, | lb. | 16 |
| * | Potassium, the metallic base of potass, may be readily obtained from pearl ash by any one who has a galvanic apparatus, | ||
| * | Prussiate of iron, (prussian blue) may be formed by adding prussiate of potass, to a solution of copperas, | oz. | 25 |
| * | Prussiate of potass, a combination of potass and prussic acid, | oz. | 50 |
| * | Pumice stone, | lb. | 12 |
| * | Red lead, (minium) is obtained by melting lead in an open vessel, and exposing it in that state to the action of the atmospheric air, | oz. | 3 |
| * | Red ochre, (spanish brown) a native oxide of iron, | lb. | 6 |
| * | Rosin, the resinous part of turpentine, | lb. | 6 |
| * | Silver bronze, | pwt. | 50 |
| * | Silver leaf, | book | 30 |
| * | Slip blue, (wet blue) an aqueous preparation of prussian blue, | lb. | 30 |
| * | Spirits of turpentine, (oil of turpentine) is procured by distilling common or crude turpentine; the residuum is rosin, | pt. | 12 |
| * | Sub-acetate of copper, (verdigris,) | oz. | 3 |
| * | Sub-carbonate of potass, (pearlash) potass refined by calcination, | lb. | 12 |
| * | Sulphate of copper, (blue vitriol, roman vitriol,) | oz. | 3 |
| * | Sulphate of iron, (copperas, green vitriol,) | oz. | 6 |
| Sulphate of lime, (plaister of paris, alabaster, gypsum,) | |||
| * | Sulphate of zinc, (white vitriol,) | oz. | 3 |
| * | Sulphur (brimstone) is generally found combined with ores of metals, | oz. | 3 |
| * | Sulphuric acid, (oil of vitriol) the condensed vapour of burning sulphur, | oz. | 16 |
| * | Sulphuric ether, procured by distilling alcohol with sulphuric acid, | oz. | 25 |
| * | Super carbonate of potass (sal eratus) is formed by passing a current of carbonic acid gas, through a solution of pearl ash, | oz. | 3 |
| * | Super carbonate of soda, may be prepared in the same manner from the sub-carbonate, | oz. | 12 |
| * | Super tartrate of potass (cream of tartar) is found encrusted on the sides of casks in which wine has been kept, | oz. | 4 |
| * | Tartaric acid, procured from cream of tartar, | oz. | 12 |
| * | Terra-de-sienna, an oxide of iron that becomes dark red by burning, | oz. | 6 |
| * | Tin, (grain, or granulated tin,) | oz. | 12 |
| * | Tin foil, metallic tin rolled to thin laminas or sheets like paper, | oz. | 12 |
| * | Turmeric, the root of a vegetable, | oz. | 3 |
| * | Umber, a brown earth that becomes nearly black by burning, | oz. | 3 |
| * | Venice turpentine, | oz. | 6 |
| * | Vermilion, a sulphuret of mercury, is sometimes found native, but may be procured by grinding sulphur and mercury together, and heating them, first in an open vessel, till the mixture takes a violet colour; and afterward in a flask or matrass, | oz. | 12 |
| * | Whiting, (Spanish white) refined, | lb. | 12 |
| * | Yellow ochre, (spruce yellow) an oxide of iron, | lb. | 12 |
| * | Zinc (spelter) a metal of which, with copper, brass is made, | oz. | 3 |
