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... substance so unlike magnesium as to be at once recognised as a different kind of matter . If a thin copper wire , covered with cotton or silk , is 3 wrapped many times round a piece of soft - iron and an electric current is then passed ...
... substance so unlike magnesium as to be at once recognised as a different kind of matter . If a thin copper wire , covered with cotton or silk , is 3 wrapped many times round a piece of soft - iron and an electric current is then passed ...
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... substances at high and low temperatures , & c . Substances which have markedly different properties are said to differ in kind , or to be different kinds of matter . Thus we say that iron is a kind of matter different from glass ; that ...
... substances at high and low temperatures , & c . Substances which have markedly different properties are said to differ in kind , or to be different kinds of matter . Thus we say that iron is a kind of matter different from glass ; that ...
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... substance is formed which colours the liquid deep blue . Lead nitrate is a heavy , white , crystalline , solid ; it dissolves in a little hot water and separates from this solution , as it cools , in white , lustrous , crystals . Two ...
... substance is formed which colours the liquid deep blue . Lead nitrate is a heavy , white , crystalline , solid ; it dissolves in a little hot water and separates from this solution , as it cools , in white , lustrous , crystals . Two ...
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... substance takes the place of another ? An electric current was passed through water , some of the water disappeared and in its place two gases were produced ; but may not these gases have come from the platinum plates , or from the ...
... substance takes the place of another ? An electric current was passed through water , some of the water disappeared and in its place two gases were produced ; but may not these gases have come from the platinum plates , or from the ...
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... If the student is not familiar with the connection between mass and weight he ought to consult a treatise on physics . masses of substances are determined in chemistry by weighing them 14 [ CHAP . I. ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY .
... If the student is not familiar with the connection between mass and weight he ought to consult a treatise on physics . masses of substances are determined in chemistry by weighing them 14 [ CHAP . I. ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY .
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Page 73 - The fact that two volumes of hydrogen combine with one volume of oxygen to form...
Page 265 - ... the eighth element starting from a given one is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music.
Page 196 - Now it is one great object of this work, to show the importance and advantage of ascertaining the relative weights of the ultimate particles, both of simple and compound bodies, the number of simple elementary particles which constitute one compound particle, and the number of less compound particles which enter into the formation of one more compound particle.
Page 11 - That there abides in nature a certain pure matter, which, being discovered and brought by art to perfection, converts to itself proportionally all imperfect bodies that it touches.
Page 182 - The total energy of any body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of such bodies, though it may be transformed into any one of the forms of which energy is susceptible.
Page 197 - When only one combination of two bodies can be obtained, it must be presumed to be a binary one, unless some cause appear to the contrary.
Page 175 - Waage formulate the law of mass thus chemical action is proportional to the active mass of each substance taking part in the change.
Page 192 - And it often makes a great difference with what things and in what position the same first-beginnings are held in union and what motions they mutually impart and receive...
Page 49 - Dalton, all substances combine in definite proportions or "equivalents" ; thus, 1 part by weight of hydrogen combines with 8 parts by weight of oxygen to form water.