Rotation of plane of polarisation by quartz of two varieties and
different thickness, 180, 210, 211
Royal Institution experiment with diamonds, 8
Sal-ammoniac, 82, 83
Salol and betol, Miers’ researches on, 242, 243
Sand grains with quartz crystals, 3
Scalenohedron of calcite, 11
Scheele’s discovery of tartaric acid, 142
Schlippe’s salt, 45
Schönflies, discovery of remainder of 230 point-systems, 118, 119, 140
Seebeck, researches on ammonia, 82, 83
Selenates, isomorphous with sulphates, 96;
of alkalies, 121
Selenic acid, 95
Selenite, polarisation colours of films of, 203
Selenium, discovery by Berzelius, 96
Sella’s warning against hasty generalisation, 102
Senarmontite, 88
Silver iodide, 256, 292
Single refraction of cubic crystals, 162, 183
Snow crystals, 49
Sobrerol, 153
Sodium chlorate, 151;
sulphantimoniate, 45
Sohncke, regular point-systems, 117;
mirror-image molecular arrangement, 141;
two point-systems of quartz, 151
Sollas, crystal structure, theory of, 292
Solubility and supersolubility, 238–241;
curves of, 240
Solutions, optical activity of, 151;
metastable and labile, 240, 241
Space-lattices, 50, 114–116;
triclinic illustration of, 115
Specific gravity, importance of determinations of, 129
Spheres of influence of atoms, 113
Steno, 16
Stereographic projection, 34, 62, 67;
of topaz, 68;
of double sulphates, 35
Stereometric arrangement of atoms in molecule, 124, 136
Story Maskelyne, 34
Strain, polarisation colours of glass and diamond due to, 207, 208
Structural units of crystals, 24, 111–113
Sulphantimoniate of sodium, 45
Sulphate, ammonium magnesium, 44
Sulphates of alkalies, 121;
of barium, strontium and lead, 74
Sulphur, dimorphism of, 86, 87, 137;
monoclinic form of, 4, 86
Symbol of a face or form, 57
Symmetry, axes and planes of, 34, 36, 41, 55;
elements of, 34
Systems, the crystal, 6, 7, 33
Tartaric acid, 142–148;
dextro, 143, 146–148;
lævo, 144, 146–148;
pyro-electrical properties of, 149
Tartrate, hydrogen potassium, 43
Tetartohedral classes of crystals, 34
Tetragonal system, 37;
axes and planes of, 36, 52
Thallium, relation of to alkali metals, 131
Thénard and Gay-Lussac, research on ammonia, 83
Thomson, J. M., 238
Thomson, Sir J. J., discovery of composition of atoms, 112
Topaz, crystal of, 40;
stereographic projection of, 68
Transition tint, 180
Triclinic bipyramid, 56;
system, 40;
axes and planes of, 53, 54
Trigonal system, 37;
axes and planes of, 37, 53, 55
Triphenyl pyrrholone derivatives, 105–108
Triple tartrate of sodium, potassium, and ammonium, 91
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