Calendar: 1865-1866 Page 569

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 571 IV -CJ etms$tri Define "the term combustion What are the products obtained by burning ordinary coal in air Describe two methods of obtaining carbonic oxide What are its principal properties and its density How much oxygen would be needed for the combustion of cubic inches of this gas What would be the composition and the volume of the product AVhat are th3 common impurities in Spring water State how each is detected How is the presence of lead in water ascertained Explain why soft water more readily attacks lead than hard water What salts have preservative what corrosive effect Describe the preparation of sulphuretted hydrogen With what bodies is it analogous Give its composition by weight and by volume and explain its action on perchloride of iron sulphate of copper and on solution of ammonia Enumerate the metals which it will precipitate from their acid solutions Describe the preparation and properties of Olefiant gas How much oxygen does cubic inch require for its combustion What are the products and what the volume of each Describe the action of chlorine on Olefiant gas What is the composition of Epsom salts How is it pre- pared How distinguished from sulphate of zinc and from oxalic acid