Chapter VI: Appendix

_Abstract of De la Roche and Berard’s essay
on the specific heat of gases_ 268
---- _Dulong and Petit’s essays,
On the expansion of air, mercury,
glass, iron, copper, and platina,
by heat_ 272
_On the capacities of certain bodies,
for heat_ 274
_On the laws of refrigeration_ 277
_On the specific heats of certain
bodies_ 280
_Remarks on the above essays_ 282
_New Table of the forces of vapours_ 298
_Table of the expansion of air, and the force
of aqueous and ætherial vapour, adapted
to atmospheric temperatures_ 299
_Applications of the above table_ 300
_Formulæ for determining the proportions of
combustible gases, in mixtures_ 305
_Heat produced by the combustion of gases_ 309
_Absorption of gases by water_ 309
_Fluoric acid--deutoxide of hydrogen_ 311
_Muriatic acid--oxymuriatic acid_ 313
_Nitric acid--compounds of azote and oxygen_ 315
_On ammonia_ 328
_Decomposition of ammonia by nitrous oxide_ 330
---- ---- ---- _by nitrous gas and oxygen_ 332
_Volume of gases from the decomposition of
ammonia_ 335
_Decomposition of ammonia by a red heat_ 335
_Decomposition of ammonia by oxymuriatic acid_335
_Sulphuret of Carbon_ 338
_Potassium, Sodium, &c._ 340
_Alum_ 341
_New table of the relative weights of atoms._ 352

ADDENDA. _Steel; mixed gases;
expansion of liquids by heat_ 354

NEW SYSTEM OF _CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY_.

CHAP. V.