MANIOC

The Indian name of amylaceous products. of the shrub called Jatropha manihot. MANIPULATION, in Chemistry, embraces the manual and mechanical operations of the laboratory and in the delicate details of analysis, as well as in the exhibition of cla experiments, great skill and practice in manipulation are required to ensure succe . The proce es >( weighing, measuring, filtering, distilling, precipitating di olving, using the blowpipe, , all come within the meaning of manipulation. Mr. Faraday has published an excellent treanst upon this subject.. [s. 728]