Caveman Chemistry

Table of Contents

1. Prologue
2. Administration
3. Memetics
4. The Last Day
5. The Last Hour
6. Projects
7. Website
8. Charcoal
9. Elements of Chemistry
10. Lavoisier's Elements
11. Process Schematics
12. Fire Project
13. Silicates
14. Spiders and Inspirations
15. Rocks and Minerals
16. Stone Tools
17. Spalling
18. Flaking
19. Shaping
20. Finishing
21. Units
22. I-deas and and Inspirations
23. Unit Factors
24. UFA in a Nutshell
25. The Above and the Below
26. Material Safety Data Sheets
27. Mead
28. Administrative Stuff
29. Fermentation
30. Aerobic and Anaerobic Fermentation
31. The Fermenter
32. Stewing in Your Own Juices
33. Beer
34. Theories
35. Material Safety
36. The Fermentation Lock
37. Ceramics
38. Timeline
39. Aluminosilicates
40. Kaolinite
41. Temperature
42. Material Safety
43. The Crucible
44. The Pedestal
45. The Lips
46. The Lid
47. Athanor at the Furnace
48. Textiles
49. Timeline
50. Why Do We Wear Clothes?
51. The Earliest Evidence of Clothing
52. Fiber Chemistry
53. Material Safety
54. Teasing, Pulling, Twisting
55. Drafting and Plying
56. The Drop Spindle
57. Metathesis
58. Olfone Dalfay
59. Cations and Anions
60. Inorganic Solubility
61. Solubility
62. Material Safety
63. Alkali
64. Wood Fires
65. Ashes from Wood
66. Solubility of Alkali Salts
67. Recrystallization as a Process
68. The pH Scale
69. Reactions
70. Material Safety
71. Dissolution
72. Coagulation
73. Metals
74. Native Metals
75. Metal Ores
76. Smelting
77. Roasting
78. Material Safety
79. The Smelting Crucible
80. The Bronze Nugget
81. Lime
82. Alkaline Earths
83. Products
84. Gypsum to Plaster
85. Limestone to Lime
86. Calcining and Slaking
87. Hydraulic Cement
88. Material Safety
89. Plaster
90. Lime
91. Crucible and Model
92. The Mold
93. Redox
94. Reactions
95. Redox Reactions
96. Dihydrogen Monoxide
97. Chronic Toxicity
98. Material Safety
99. Dyes
100. Tempus Fugit
101. Raw Wool
102. "Natural" Dyes
103. Color Fastness
104. Urine
105. Indigo Reduction
106. Indigo Oxidation
107. Black Walnut
108. Material Safety
109. Dyes
110. Glass
111. Tempus Fugit
112. Ice Cream
113. Fluxes
114. Viscosity
115. Annealing
116. De-Vitrification
117. Soda-Lime Glass
118. Borosilicate Glass
119. Material Safety
120. Lining the Crucible
121. The Mold
122. Freeing the Glass
123. Removing the Investment
124. Paper
125. Tempus Fugit
126. Not Paper
127. Paper
128. Alkali
129. Lye
130. Material Safety
131. Mold, Deckle, and Couching Mound
132. Pulling a Sheet I
133. Pulling a Sheet II
134. Draining the Sheet
135. Couching I
136. Couching II
137. Couching III
138. Pressing a Post
139. Drying Paper
140. Stoichiometry
141. Tempus Fugit
142. The Bicycle
143. The Bicycle Factory
144. The Lye Factory
145. Lyes and More Lyes
146. Formula Weight
147. Stoichiometry
148. The NFPA Diamond
149. Material Safety
150. Alcohol
151. Tempus Fugit
152. Bejeezus: The Missing Stuff
153. Boiling
154. Distillation
155. Water
156. Ethanol
157. Acetic Acid
158. Solubility
159. Condensation
160. Ethyl Acetate
161. Material Safety
162. The Law
163. The Still
164. The Column and Condenser
165. The Spirit Lamp
166. Gunpowder
167. Tempus Fugit
168. Redox Reactons
169. Perfect Balance
170. Huo Yao
171. Material Safety
172. Plugs and Nozzles
173. Rolling Your Own
174. Loading
175. Cross Section
176. It Rises
177. Acid
178. Tempus Fugit
179. Indigo
180. Carbonic Acid
181. Sulfurous Acid
182. Sulfur Trioxide
183. Sulfuric Acid
184. The Lead Chamber
185. Mineral Acids
186. Material Safety
187. The Burner
188. The Absorber
189. Saltpeter from Cat Litter
190. Soap
191. Tempus Fugit
192. Alkalis and Acids
193. Esters
194. Alcohols
195. Organic Acids
196. Saponification
197. Emulsification
198. Material Safety
199. UFA
200. Is It Soap Yet?
201. Soda
202. Tempus Fugit
203. Alkalis and Acids
204. Traditional Sources
205. Alkali from Ash
206. Salt
207. The Leblanc Process
208. Perfect Balance
209. Birth of an Industry
210. Material Safety
211. Calcination
212. Dissolution
213. Coagulation
214. Batteries
215. Tempus Fugit
216. Economics of Tolls
217. Electron Economics
218. Electron Arithmetic
219. Redox Reactions
220. Process Schematic
221. Material Safety
222. Cutaway
223. The Battery
224. Aniline Dyes
225. Tempus Fugit
226. Professional Chemistry
227. Distillation
228. Tar
229. Dyes
230. Material Safety
231. Chromatography
232. Spots
233. Photography
234. Tempus Fugit
235. Alternative Processes
236. Prerequisites to Photography
237. Foundations of Photography
238. Reduction
239. The Emulsion
240. Fixing
241. Alternative Silver
242. Material Safety
243. Emulsion
244. Coating the Paper
245. Sensitizing the Paper
246. Exposing the Paper
247. Fix, Rinse, Dry
248. Ammonia
249. Tempus Fugit
250. Industries in 1860
251. Chemical Industries in 1860
252. The Lead Chamber
253. The Leblanc Process
254. Trouble in Paradise
255. Carbon Dioxide
256. Ammonia
257. The Solvay Process
258. Chemical Industries in 1890
259. Material Safety
260. Distillation and Absorption
261. Spirit Made Flesh
262. Electrochemicals
263. Tempus Fugit
264. Electrochemicals
265. The Lead Storage Battery
266. The Hall-Heroult Process
267. The Chloralkali Process
268. The Castner-Kellner Cell
269. Electric Stoichiometry
270. Material Safety
271. Graphite Rods
272. Constructing
273. Filling
274. Operating
275. Pharmaceuticals
276. Tempus Fugit
277. Chemicals
278. Companies
279. Drugs
280. Anhydrous Acids
281. Coal-Tar Distillates
282. Acetanilide
283. Aspirin
284. Material Safety
285. Recrystallization
286. Fertilizers
287. Tempus Fugit
288. Air
289. Chemicals
290. Companies
291. Ammonia and Nitric Acid
292. Material Safety
293. Guncotton
294. Collodion
295. Plastics
296. Tempus Factum
297. Plastics
298. Fibers
299. Films
300. Polyester
301. Condensation Polymers
302. Chemicals
303. Companies
304. Material Safety
305. Polyester Fiber
306. Epilogue
307. Memetics
308. The Last Day
309. The Last Hour
310. Christian Schonbein
311. John Doe
312. The Emerald Tablet
313. A Story Worth Telling
314. History
315. MyStory
316. YourStory