Laboratory Notebook

Inside fly-leaf: miscellaneous rough notes.

P. i note by Mr Faraday, 4 Dec. 1829, about provenance of papers included in volume.

Pp.1-11 Account of ye Experiments made in ye Laboratory 1805.

P.1 Experiments to ascertain "whether common Whin (basalt) contains usually carbonaceous matter"; "whether the bitumen lost in the coal existed in the shale"; "the operation of Heat upon the flint confined in chalk near basalt".

Pp.1-10 experiments with flint, basalt and pitch stone.

Pp.10-11 wavellite

P.13 list of experiments on different kinds of salt 180

Pp.13-14 "An Account of soils sent by Mr Young in Bottles"

P.15 list of experiments on salt, by solution; experiments on oak bark, isinglass, limestone, copper

P.17 experiments on phosphorus (galvanism), basalt, turnip seeds

Pp.18-20 studies of basalt

P.21 "Agenda Oct 13th 1806. To make Experiments on the juice of the prickly Pear."

Pp.22-25 1806. Experiments "to ascertain whether an alkali & or an acid are produced by Galvanic Electricity from pure Water, exposed to air ..."; decomposition of salts by galvanism.

P.26 1806: experiments to decompose phosphorus by the galvanic fluid.

Pp.27-48 galvanism experiments, 1806.

P.49 Antwerp blue, magnesia; studies 1807.

Pp.49-65 1807: galvanism experiments

P.61 decomposition of potash

P.63 decomposition of soda

Pp.66-75 experiments with potash, 1807.

P.76 "Some Regulations with regard to the state of the Laboratory"

P.77 experiments with compound of sulphur and phosphorus

Pp.79-84 combustion of sodagen and potagen.

Pp.85-102 discussion of properties of substance from potash. Conclusion (p.102): "The Basis of Potash serves almost as an accurate indication of the proportion of oxygene in Bodies..."

P.103 note on muriatic acid and boracic acid

Pp.105-9 19 April 1808. "Indications of the decomposition of Muriatic Acid; To use every effort to ensure accuracy in the results." 265pp., MS.

Pp.111-13 12 July 1808: decomposition of the earths by iron wire.

P.114 decomposition of mercury solutions

Pp. 115-20 amalgams of lime

P. 117 note of apparatus and chemicals bought

P. 121 boracic and fluoric acids

P. 123 action of ammonia on potassium

P. 125 action of potassium on nydrogen and on fluoric acids

Pp. 126-35 experiments with ammonia

Pp. 135-7 action of potassium on hydrogen

Pp.137-8 expt for procuring sodium with a gun barrel

Pp.138-9 ammonia and potassium

P.139 hydrogen and potassium

Pp.140-50 ammonia and potassium

P. 150 potassium and boracic acid

Pp.152-4 potassium and ammonia

P. 156 potassium and phosphoretted hydrogen

P. 157 potassium with plumbago and boracic acid

P. 158 potassium and sodium

P. 159 effect of heat on muriate of ammonia, potash & charcoal

Pp.159-61 experiments on pearl ash

Pp.163-70 muriatic and fluoric acids; potassium

Pp. 171-85 1809: action of potassium on ammonia

Pp.186-88 potassium and barilla

Pp.188-93 potassium and ammonia

Pp.193-5 potassium and boracic acid

Pp.196-7 potassium and gun barrel

Pp.198-203 experiments under oil, with ammonia

P. 205 experiments with boiled mercury

P. 208 ammonia and potassium

P. 209 Distillation of olive coloured substance with potassium

Pp.211-13 diminution of gases

P. 214 muriatic acid and limestones

Pp.215-7 effect of heat and acids on metals

218-20 gas from decomposition of substances; galvanism

Pp.222-4 action of potassium on nitrogen

P. 226 decomposition of ammonia by voltaic electricity

P. 227 decomposition of ammonia by potassium

P. 228 decomposition of ammonia by charcoal

Pp.229-35 action of potassium on ammonia

P. 235 note of experiments to be done in [H.Davy's] absence

Pp. 237-9 list of chemical tests and apparatus needed in the laboratory

Pp.240-46 experiments on nitrogen with ammonia & potassium

P.247 phospuretted muriatic acid

Pp.250-56 accounts - sundries for the laboratory

Pp.257-60 sulphuretted hydrogen

P.261 apparatus bought

P.262 potassium experiments

Pp.263-4 work with oxymuriatic acid.