A Practical Manual On Sea Water Distillation
With A Description Of The Necessary Machinery For The Process

CONTENTS. ix Sections. Bay-salt—Bittern—Common Salt—Various Analyses; Forch- hammer, Schweitzer, Usiglio, Dittmar—H.M.S. “Challenger,” 4 Complexity of Salts found—Precious Metals; Gold and Silver, Traces of................................................ 5 Ordinary Saline Matter—Average Specimen, English Channel— Table B,................................................. 6 Faraday’s Analysis,........................................... 7 Dr. Tidy’s Analysis,.......................................... 8 Rivers’ Pollution Committee Analysis, ...... 9 Average Salinity—Torrid and Frigid Regions—Specific Gravity of Ocean Water, and of the Saline Matter contained—Satura- tion of Brine Solution (Boiling Points), . . . . .10,11 Salinometer Test,............................................ 12 “ Salinity” and “ Density”of Brines Explained and Distinguished —Tables C and CC—Fig. 1,..............................13-17 Other Properties of Sea Water—Comparative Volumes and Weights—Table D,.........................................18, 19 (6) Inland Seas. Seas Compared and Contrasted as to Salinity—Wide Differences in Salinity—Mediterranean, Red Sea, Suez Canal, Baltic, Black Sea, Caspian, Dead Sea,............................. 20 Composition of all, consists mostly of Common Salt, ... 21 Importance of Natural Salinity to Adjust Feed Quantity, . . 22 (c) Salt Wells. Australian Wells—Variable Salinity,............................23 CHAPTER IV. STEAM. Generally. Sections. Importance of Knowledge of Properties, ..... 1 Nature of Steam,.............................................. 2 Properties—Table E—Pressures—Heat: Sensible, Latent, Total —Specific Volume—Weight,.................................. 3 Heat, Measurement of-*-Standard Unit, B.T. U.................. 4, 5