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 of weighing, measuring, filtering, distilling, pre cio it at ing, di olving, using the blowpipe, . all come within the meaning of manipulation. Mr. Faraday has published an excellent treatise upon this subject. [s. 723]