The Chemistry of Common Life, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1854 - 654 pàgines |
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Pàgina 6
... nearly its entire bulk ; the two others , carbonic acid . and watery vapour , being present only in minute quantities . Oxygen is a kind of air or gas , which , like the atmos- phere itself , is without colour , taste , or smell . A ...
... nearly its entire bulk ; the two others , carbonic acid . and watery vapour , being present only in minute quantities . Oxygen is a kind of air or gas , which , like the atmos- phere itself , is without colour , taste , or smell . A ...
Pàgina 9
... , as we ascend , so that at heights of 8000 or 10,000 feet the proportion of carbonic acid is nearly doubled . Even this increased quantity is very small ; and yet its presence is essential to the existence of vegetable 1 *
... , as we ascend , so that at heights of 8000 or 10,000 feet the proportion of carbonic acid is nearly doubled . Even this increased quantity is very small ; and yet its presence is essential to the existence of vegetable 1 *
Pàgina 13
... nearly three - fourths of its whole weight , and from the surface of its leaves water is continually rising into the air in the form of invisible vapour . Were the air absolutely dry , it would cause this water to evaporate from their ...
... nearly three - fourths of its whole weight , and from the surface of its leaves water is continually rising into the air in the form of invisible vapour . Were the air absolutely dry , it would cause this water to evaporate from their ...
Pàgina 19
... nearly every day of the year , I am inclined to regard this acid as a constant constituent of atmospheric air . Whether it is essential or indispensable to the present con- dition of things , we have not as yet the means of determin ...
... nearly every day of the year , I am inclined to regard this acid as a constant constituent of atmospheric air . Whether it is essential or indispensable to the present con- dition of things , we have not as yet the means of determin ...
Pàgina 23
... 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 ...
... 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...