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... oxygen , one of the three most stub- born gases , the ubiquitous supporter of life , has , under a pressure of three hundred atmospheres , been condensed into a liquid . Who can tell the fixed and unvarying elemental form of matter ...
... oxygen , one of the three most stub- born gases , the ubiquitous supporter of life , has , under a pressure of three hundred atmospheres , been condensed into a liquid . Who can tell the fixed and unvarying elemental form of matter ...
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... oxygen , the other is hydrogen . Thus we have arrived at the grained structure of the whole . How finely grained water is , may be seen from the fact , that were it possible to draw out a film 100,000,000th of an inch in thickness , it ...
... oxygen , the other is hydrogen . Thus we have arrived at the grained structure of the whole . How finely grained water is , may be seen from the fact , that were it possible to draw out a film 100,000,000th of an inch in thickness , it ...
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... oxygen . The broad ocean composes its vast masses of fluid principally from two ele- ments - oxygen and hydrogen , -and the salt consists mainly of chlorine , sodium , and oxygen . The animal and vegetable worlds , innumerable in forms ...
... oxygen . The broad ocean composes its vast masses of fluid principally from two ele- ments - oxygen and hydrogen , -and the salt consists mainly of chlorine , sodium , and oxygen . The animal and vegetable worlds , innumerable in forms ...
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... oxygen element . The reply is , " None of you , or two of you ; " and so , throughout , there are certain mathematical proportions . One gas unites with one , two , three , or more volumes of another . There appear even to be special ...
... oxygen element . The reply is , " None of you , or two of you ; " and so , throughout , there are certain mathematical proportions . One gas unites with one , two , three , or more volumes of another . There appear even to be special ...
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... oxygen - the sup- port of animal life . All these , whether waves of aether , or atoms coalescing in sky - matter , or matter in invisible masses , move to the music of law . Pass from the rudiments to the mechanism of worlds . Diffused ...
... oxygen - the sup- port of animal life . All these , whether waves of aether , or atoms coalescing in sky - matter , or matter in invisible masses , move to the music of law . Pass from the rudiments to the mechanism of worlds . Diffused ...
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