ZINC
is:
by boiling malt, pouring off the water, and keeping the grains in awarm place to ferment, repeating the process till a sufficient quantityis procured.
Yellow. See Oil Colours, Chrome Yellow, &c.
Yellow Basilicon. See Ung. Elemi Comp.
Yellow Hbsin. See Resina Flava.
Yellow Wash. See Aqua Phased.
Yew. See Taxus.
Yolk of Egg. See Ovum.
Zaffre. A blue colour used in painting glass, and prepared by roastingone part of cobalt with three parts of pure sand.
Zanthogen. See Hydrozanthic Acid.
Zanthorhiza Apiifolia. Yellow Root. The root is a bitter stimulantand good tonic, and is given in doses of 9ij of the powder.
Zanthoxylon Fraxineum. Prickly Ash. The bark is stimulant andsialagogue, and is used in rheumatic tooth-ache, and chronic rheuma-tism, in doses of gr. x to 3j of the powder; or Jiv to jviij of thedecoction every four hours.
Zedoaria; Radix. D. P. Zedoary. Amomum zedoaria. A warmaromatic bitter, stimulant, stomachic, and anthelmintic, in doses of9j to 5j of the powder alone, or with milk, thrice a day, in hysteria,dyspepsia, &c.
Zedoaria Rotunda. Kcempferia rotunda. P. The root has similarproperties, and may be given in similar doses to the preceding, inpyrosis, erratic gout, &c.
Zeine. The chemical basis of maize or Indian corn. (J. Goriiam.)
Zibetiium. See Civet.
Zincum. L. E. D. P. Zinc. Spelter, V. This is a metal of a greyish-blue colour, and of a spec. grav. of 7 - l£W. It is used for making theplates of galvanic apparatus, and for making the following importantsalts:
Zinoi Carbonas. See Calamina.
Zinci Oxydum, L. E. D. P. Oxide of Zinc. Pompholix, Nihil alhum,Flores Zinci, Philosopher's wool. O. Take ftj of sulphate of zinc,Oj or q. s. of solution of ammonia, Oj of distilled water; dissolvethe sulphate of zinc in the water, and add the ammonia till all theoxide of zinc is precipitated; pour off the clear liquor; wash thepowder repeatedly with distilled water, and dry it on a sand-bath.It was formerly made by calcination.Decomposition. The sulphate of zinc is decomposed by the liquor an;-