Sponge
Sponge (fa. Konge; Geb., Schwamm). The Term " Sponge" Is Commercially Applied To The Elastic Horny Skeletons Of Certain Marine Animals Helongiug To The Class Poriferm, Order Iferatosa, Sub-order Sponynke, Family Spongiadw. The Commercial Grades Of Sponge In Europe And America Coincide Very Closely. The 3 Principal European Species Are ...
Starch Fr
Starch (fr., Ftrode, Amidon ; Ger., Stlfrke). The Term " Starch " Is Applied To The Fecula Or Amylaceous.matter Contained In The Fruits, Roots, Or Cellular Tissue Of By Far The Greater Number Of Plants, And Extracted From A Few On A Commercial Scale. It Occurs In Grains Of Various ...
Sugar
Sugar (fa., Sucre; Ger.) Zucker). Tbe Term " Sugar " Was Originally Employed And Intended To Classify All Substances Having A Sweet Flavour, And Thus Came To Be Used Almost Indiscriminately For Cane-sugar, Fruit-sugar, Sugar (acetate) Of Lead, And Other Bodies Possessing That Property. At Present, In A General Sense, ...
Sulphur
Sulphur As A Monnarrr.—hyposulphite Of Soda Was Proposed Some Time Ago For Fixing Certain Aniline Greens, And Was Used With Success. The Suggestion Was Due To A Photographer, Who, Having Been Accustomed To Employ Hyposulphite Of Soda As A Fixing Agent In His Own Department, Concluded That It Would "fix ...
Sulphuric
Sulphuric Anhydride.-of Late A Demand Has Sprung Up For A More Powerful Acid Than The Monohydrate, And Hence Sulphuric Anhydride Has Come To Be Manufactured, And Is Applied With Great Advantage In The Preparation Of Aniline Dyes And In The Purification Of Ozokerite And Other Similar Products, But As Yet ...
Sulphuric Acid Fr
Sulphuric Acid. (fr., Acide Sulphurique ; Ger., Schwefelsdure.) Formula Of The An Hydrous Acid Of The Hydrated Acid, H.,so4. This Acid Being An Essential Means Employed In The Manufacture Of All The Important Acids Which Follow In Their Alphabetical Order Of Treatment, It Has Been Judged Desirable To Displace It ...
Superphosphates
Superphosphates.-" Superphosphates," Using The Term In Its Widest Sense, Consist Principally Of Phosphatic Minerals Treated With Sulphuric Acid, For The Purpose Of Rendering The Phosphates Soluble In Water, And Therefore Easily Accessible To The Plant. It Is Not By Any Means Certain That The Phosphates Would Not Be Rendered Soluble ...
Tannin
Tannin (fa., Aratiores Tannantes; Ger., Gerbstoffe). The Word " Tannin" Doea Not, As Formerly Supposed, Denote A Single Definite Compound, But Is A Generic Nsme Applied To A Large Class Of Organic Bodies, Moatly Uncrystallizable, Which Often Differ Widely Both In Chemical Constitution And Reaction, But Have The Common Property ...
Tartaric Acid
Tartaric Acid. (fe., Acide Tartarigue ; Ger., Weinsaiire). Formula, Tartaric Acid Is Another Of The Organic Acids That Occurs Frequently In A Natural State, Especially Iu The Vegetable Kingdom, Not Having Been Detected, We Believe, In Either The Animal Or Mineral Kingdoms. In A Free State It Occurs In The ...
Tee Combustible Materials
Tee Combustible Materials Employed.—these Are Chiefly Tallow And Vegetable Fats, And 6ubstance6 Prepared Therefrom By Complicated Chemical Processes ; Also Wax, Spermaceti, .paraffin, Ozokerit, &c. Tallow.—tallow Is Simply Beef Or Mutton Fat, Or A Mixture Of Both, Prepared By Being Heated In Contact With Water And Under Alight 6team Pressure ...