The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, Volumes 27-28

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Griffin, Bohn and Company, 1773 - Chemistry

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Page 98 - Chemistry, Medicine, Surgery, and the Allied Sciences. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of other Sciences.
Page 83 - President in the chair. After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and confirmed, the Society proceeded to the election of officers and members of Council for the year next ensuing.
Page 230 - Stevenson, president, in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr.
Page 6 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 170 - By a delicate mathematical analysis, Thomson arrives at the theorem that the ''average pressure at any point of an incompressible, frictionless fluid, originally at rest, but set in motion and kept in motion by solids, moving to and fro, or whirling round in any manner, through a finite space of it," would explain the attractions just described.
Page 98 - Supplement; bringing the Record of Chemical Discovery down to the end of the year 1869 ; including also several Additions to, and Corrections of, former results which have appeared in 1870 and 1871.
Page 75 - Experiments with chlorides are recorded. It was found in all cases that the difference between the spectrum of the chloride and the spectrum of the metal was that under the same spark-conditions all the short lines were obliterated. Changing the spark-conditions, the final result was that only the very longest lines in the spectrum of the metallic vapour remained.
Page 222 - An act to amend the law for the Prevention of Adulteration of Food and Drink, and of Drugs.

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