Calendar: 1864-1865 Page 557

APPLIED SCIENCES 559 tmi stvD Define what is meant by chemical equivalent and exemplify it in two or three cases Describe the construction of Daniell's voltaic battery In what respects does it differ from Grove's Give the theory of the action of both What is voltameter What is the extent and the nature of the information it gives What is meant by the terms oxyacid and hydracid Sketch the Binary theory of salts How much oxygen would be required for the complete combustion of half cubic inch of carbonic oxide sulphuretted hydrogen and marsh gas What would be the products in each case and what the gaseous volume of the result at the normal temperature and pressure Describe the properties of nitrous and nitric oxide and the mode of obtaining each of them VI -Cljemfetvj Describe the preparation properties and chief uses of bisulphide of carbon To what substance is it most analogous Prove your statement Sketch the process of smelting iron from clay ironstone and describe the preparation of wrought from cast iron Describe the preparation and properties of the compounds of iron with oxygen and with sulphur What are the principal ores of lead Describe the ordinary method of lead smelting and the process of extracting the silver from the metal Give general account of the halogens and show their analogy by comparison of their principal compounds with hydrogen oxygen and the metals of the alkalies and earths mixture contains sulphate of soda and chloride of potassium how may the quantities of each acid and base be determined