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... Composition of a Dew - drop - Chemical Laws - The First - Oxygenated Water - The Second - The Third - The Fourth - Importance and Influence of these Laws - This is not all - LIGHT - Prismatic Spectrum- Composition of a Sunbeam ...
... Composition of a Dew - drop - Chemical Laws - The First - Oxygenated Water - The Second - The Third - The Fourth - Importance and Influence of these Laws - This is not all - LIGHT - Prismatic Spectrum- Composition of a Sunbeam ...
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... Composition and History of - Rocks and Hills crumbling to Dust . CHAPTER III . CHEMISTRY OF THE SOIL . • p . 65 Composition of the Vegetable Soil - Mother - earth - Mould- Chemical History of a Valley - A Delta - Clothing with Plants ...
... Composition and History of - Rocks and Hills crumbling to Dust . CHAPTER III . CHEMISTRY OF THE SOIL . • p . 65 Composition of the Vegetable Soil - Mother - earth - Mould- Chemical History of a Valley - A Delta - Clothing with Plants ...
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... Composition - Carbonic Acid in Air- Proportion - Properties - Power of Diffusion - Effects- Coal Gas - Ammonia in Air - Variation of - Nitrogen in Food - Source - Manures - Operation of - Effect of Char- coal on a Rose - tree - Normal ...
... Composition - Carbonic Acid in Air- Proportion - Properties - Power of Diffusion - Effects- Coal Gas - Ammonia in Air - Variation of - Nitrogen in Food - Source - Manures - Operation of - Effect of Char- coal on a Rose - tree - Normal ...
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... composition of this fluid , even before Cavendish ; losing , however , as it is said , the honour of his discovery from the delay in the publication of his experiments . It would be tedious to follow in consecutive order the further ...
... composition of this fluid , even before Cavendish ; losing , however , as it is said , the honour of his discovery from the delay in the publication of his experiments . It would be tedious to follow in consecutive order the further ...
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... composition or mode of formation of a drop of dew . For a very long time , even after chemistry was pursued scienti- fically , the most fascinating of all its depart- ments the Chemistry of Nature - was totally neglected . Dr. Priestley ...
... composition or mode of formation of a drop of dew . For a very long time , even after chemistry was pursued scienti- fically , the most fascinating of all its depart- ments the Chemistry of Nature - was totally neglected . Dr. Priestley ...
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Page 6 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 9 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Page 492 - Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments ; yet what will that tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month ? Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of an ocean which neither the art of man nor the inanimate works of nature could successfully resist.
Page 409 - I have sometimes imagined that a disturbed electrical condition of the atmosphere was most favourable to its production. Certainly I think the sea is most luminous after a few days of more calm weather than ordinary, during which time it has swarmed with various animals. Observing that the water charged with gelatinous particles is in an impure state, and that the luminous appearance in all common cases is produced by the agitation of the fluid in contact with the atmosphere, I am inclined to consider...
Page 188 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form, Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently! Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black — An ebon mass.
Page 450 - Aided by the winds and waves, it undermines and sweeps away the granite, gneiss, trap rocks, and sand-stone of Shetland, and removes the gravel and loam of the cliffs of Holderness, Norfolk, and Suffolk, which are between fifty and two hundred feet in height, and which waste at the rate of from one to six yards annually. It also bears away, in co-operation with ie Thames and the tides, the strata of London clay on the const of Essex and Sheppey.
Page 446 - But the most sublime scene is where a mural pile of porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean ; the Atlantic, when provoked by wintry gales, batters against it with all the force of real artillery, the waves having, in their repeated assaults, forced themselves an entrance.
Page 478 - I will here add a few other observations connected with the discoloration of the sea from organic causes. On the coast of Chile, a few leagues north of Concepcion, the "Beagle" one day passed through great bands of muddy water, exactly like that of a swollen river; and again, a degree south of Valparaiso, when fifty miles from the land, the same appearance was still more extensive.
Page 460 - Viewing these tribes in the most careless way, as a system of subaqueous vegetation, or even in a merely picturesque light, we see the depths of the ocean shadowed with submarine groves, often of vast extent, intermixed with meadows, as it were, of the most lively hues; while the trunks of the larger species, like the giant trees of the tropics, are loaded with innumerable minute kinds as fine as silk or transparent as a membrane.
Page 392 - ... sixty to eighty miles from the western shores of England, contains only 35'7 parts of solid substances ; and the same quantity of salt is found all over the north-eastern part of the Atlantic as far to the north as Iceland, always at such a distance from the land that the influence of fresh water from the land is avoided.