The Chemistry of Common Life, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1854 - 654 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... exists in the air in very small propor- At ordinary elevations there are only about 2 gallons of this gas in every 5000 of air - 36th part of the whole . It increases , however , as we ascend , so that at heights of 8000 or 10,000 feet ...
... exists in the air in very small propor- At ordinary elevations there are only about 2 gallons of this gas in every 5000 of air - 36th part of the whole . It increases , however , as we ascend , so that at heights of 8000 or 10,000 feet ...
Pàgina 11
... exists in the air is adjusted to the existing condition of things . Did the atmosphere consist of oxygen only the lives of animals would be of most brief duration , and bodies once set on fire would burn so fast as to be absolutely ...
... exists in the air is adjusted to the existing condition of things . Did the atmosphere consist of oxygen only the lives of animals would be of most brief duration , and bodies once set on fire would burn so fast as to be absolutely ...
Pàgina 16
... exists in the air - that were it all to come down at once over the whole earth , it would cover the surface only to a depth of 5 inches - we cannot think without amazement HOW RAIN FALLS . 17 of the vast and continuous 16 THE AIR WE ...
... exists in the air - that were it all to come down at once over the whole earth , it would cover the surface only to a depth of 5 inches - we cannot think without amazement HOW RAIN FALLS . 17 of the vast and continuous 16 THE AIR WE ...
Pàgina 18
... exists . Into this condition it is brought by the action of the sun's rays , of electricity , and of many other agencies . In this form it acts upon and combines more readily with all other substances . Among the other useful purposes ...
... exists . Into this condition it is brought by the action of the sun's rays , of electricity , and of many other agencies . In this form it acts upon and combines more readily with all other substances . Among the other useful purposes ...
Pàgina 23
... exists in nearly all com- bustible substances ; is always converted into water when these substances are burned . In water hydrogen is combined with oxygen . - What is meant by a che- mical combination . - Water without taste and smell ...
... exists in nearly all com- bustible substances ; is always converted into water when these substances are burned . In water hydrogen is combined with oxygen . - What is meant by a che- mical combination . - Water without taste and smell ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 317 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Pàgina 37 - So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Pàgina 352 - ... the world within me ! That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered : happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket...
Pàgina 290 - Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? "They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.
Pàgina 353 - ... in a waking moment. I made my way home as fast as possible, dreading at every step that I should commit some extravagance. In walking, I was hardly sensible of my feet touching the ground ; it seemed as if I slid along the street impelled by some invisible agent, and that my blood was composed of some ethereal fluid, which rendered my body lighter than air. I got to bed the moment I reached home. The most extraordinary visions of delight filled my brain all night. In the morning I rose pale and...
Pàgina 354 - Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely under the influence of the opium talked incoherently; their features were flushed ; their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the general expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The effect is usually produced in two hours, and lasts four or five. The dose varies from three grains to a drachm. The debility,boih moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible...
Pàgina 290 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Pàgina 298 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Pàgina 232 - Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
Pàgina 358 - Think of me as of one, even when four months had passed, still agitated, writhing, throbbing, palpitating, shattered; and much, perhaps, in the situation of him who has been racked...