ChemistryMacMillan, 1872 - 104 pages |
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alkali animals blue litmus bodies boiling bottle breathe bubbles burning taper burnt calcium chloride called candle carbonic acid gas chalk charcoal Chemistry clay coal gas colour colourless combined with oxygen common salt compound contains carbon cool copper cork crystals dissolve earth EXPERIMENT filter fire and burn flask form oxides form water gases gauze gold gypsum half an ounce hard hard water heat hydrochloric acid hydrogen iron lamp lead Lead Acetate light lime lime-water liquid magnesium melted metal milky mixture nitrate nitre nitric acid nitrogen oxide of mercury oxygen and hydrogen oxygen gas piece potash Potassium pounds pure quantity red oxide red powder red-hot retort rocks silver small bit soap Sodium carbonate Sodium chloride Sodium nitrate sodium sulphate solid soluble soot substance sulphuric acid takes fire test-tube weight of oxygen whilst white powder wire yellow zinc zinc sulphate
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Page 92 - Two parts by weight of hydrogen unite with 1C parts by weight of oxygen to form 18 parts by weight of water.
Page 39 - Of course the kind of substances which the rain water takes up in solution on its road to the sea will depend upon the kind of rock or soil through which it passes, and also, you will say truly, upon the sort of dirt which people living near throw in. Some springs are even more salt than the sea itself, because the water which supplies them flows over a layer or bed of solid salt inside the earth.
Page 4 - You see that the bright glass is at once dimmed, and if you look carefully you will notice the little drops of water which bedew the inside of the glass.