MINERAL KINGDOM—continued.

(A.) CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES EMPLOYED IN MANUFACTURES.

(a.) Non-Metallic Substances.

Such as Carbon in its various states for the purposes of fuel, Charcoal, Coke, Bituminous Coal, Anthracite, Lignite, Artificial Fuels, Products of distillation of Coals, Mineral Oils and Naphtha; Phosphorus in its different states; Sulphur as in the manufacture of Sulphuric Acid, &c.; Muriatic Acid, Nitric Acid, Boracic Acid, &c. &c.

(b.) Alkalies, Earths, and their Compounds.

Such as Potash and its Salts, as Carbonate, Sulphate, and Chlorate of Potash; Nitre native and artificial, the latter as made in Asia, France, Switzerland, Sweden, and as used for Gunpowder, &c.;—Soda and its Salts, as Common Salt and its various modes of preparation, Nitrate of Soda, Borax, Soda Ash, and Carbonate of Soda native and as prepared either from Salt, Barilla, or Kelp, and as used for soap or glass-making, &c.; Sulphate of Soda, &c.; Lime and its Compounds, as Limestone; Chalk, Marbles, Mortars, and Hydraulic Limestone, Cements, Materials for Frescoes, Plaster of Paris, Gypsum, Alabaster, Bleaching Powder, &c.; Magnesia, and the materials for preparing it and its Salts; Barytes, as Sulphate of Barytes; Strontia for coloured fires, &c.:—Alumina, as Alum Slate, Alum, Sulphate of Alumina, &c.

(c.) Metals Proper, and their Compounds.

Such as Iron and its Salts, Iron Pyrites for Green Vitriol, Colcothar, Ochre, Venetian Red, or as used for calico-printing and dyeing, Sulphate of Iron, as used for making Sulphuric Acid, &c.; Copper, as Acetate and Sulphate of Copper as used for colours and dyeing, for electrotyping, &c., Verdigris, Scheele’s Green, Verditer, Carbonate of Copper, &c.;—Zinc and its Salts, Zinc Paint, &c.;—Tin and its Compounds, as Salts of Tin, Stannates, Oxymuriate, &c.;—Lead, as White Lead, Acetate and Nitrate of Lead, Naples Yellow, &c.;—Chromium, as Chrome Ore, Chromates of Potash, Yellow and Orange Chromate of Lead, Oxide of Chromium for colours, as for glass, pottery, &c.;—Arsenic, as Scheele’s Green, Orpiment, Realgar, &c.;—Antimony, as Sulphuret of Antimony for percussion powder, Butter of Antimony, &c.;—Bismuth, as Pearl white, &c.;—Cobalt, as Oxide of Cobalt for pottery colours, small blue, &c.; Nickel, for glass-staining, &c.;—Tungsten, as the Yellow Oxides, Tungstates for dyeing, &c.;—Mercury, as for philosophical instruments, silvering mirrors, &c.;—Gold, Platinum, Silver, and the other noble metals, their preparations for electrotyping, giving of metallic lustres, &c. &c.

(d.) Mixed Chemical Manufactures.

Such as Soap, Prussiate of Potash and Prussian Blue, Ultramarine, &c. &c.

(B.) CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES USED IN MEDICINE.

(a.) Non-Metallic Substances.

As Iodine, Bromine, Chlorine, Sulphur, Phosphorus, Charcoal, and their compounds, &c.

(b.) Alkalies, Earths, and their Compounds.

As Carbonates, Chlorides, Sulphates, Nitrates, Phosphates, &c., and other compounds of Potash, Soda, Lime, and Magnesia, &c.

(c.) Metallic Preparations.

As Calomel, Corrosive Sublimate, Red Oxide, and Bisulphuret of Mercury, and other compounds; Salts of Silver, Copper, Iron, Antimony, Zinc, &c. &c.

(C.) RARER SUBSTANCES MANUFACTURED CHIEFLY FOR THE USE OF THE SCIENTIFIC CHEMIST.

Iodine, Bromine, Selenium; Potassium, Sodium, and other rare Metallic Bases and their compounds, &c. &c.