An Introduction to the Study of Chemical Philosophy: Being a Preparatory View of the Forces which Concur to the Production of Chemical Phenomena |
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... mercury , or two drops of water ; the moment they appear to touch each other they coalesce , and become one . One of the most striking illustrations of homo- geneous attraction is afforded by sifting some finely powdered resin upon a ...
... mercury , or two drops of water ; the moment they appear to touch each other they coalesce , and become one . One of the most striking illustrations of homo- geneous attraction is afforded by sifting some finely powdered resin upon a ...
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... mercury . If more mercury be now poured into the longer leg , so that it may stand at thirty inches above the level of the mercury in the shorter leg , it will press with its whole weight upon the included air , which will then be found ...
... mercury . If more mercury be now poured into the longer leg , so that it may stand at thirty inches above the level of the mercury in the shorter leg , it will press with its whole weight upon the included air , which will then be found ...
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... mercury of 30 ( 7 ) The annexed figure represents the construc- tion of the common sucking - pump : A , B , is the barrel fitted with a piston , in which is a valve at A , opening upwards ; another valve , E , at the bottom of the ...
... mercury of 30 ( 7 ) The annexed figure represents the construc- tion of the common sucking - pump : A , B , is the barrel fitted with a piston , in which is a valve at A , opening upwards ; another valve , E , at the bottom of the ...
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... mercury , and closed with the finger , has been inverted carefully beneath the surface , D C , of the mercury in the glass basin , D C F E. Upon removal of the finger from B , the mercury has fallen in the tube from H to G , the column of ...
... mercury , and closed with the finger , has been inverted carefully beneath the surface , D C , of the mercury in the glass basin , D C F E. Upon removal of the finger from B , the mercury has fallen in the tube from H to G , the column of ...
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... mercury in the barometer . Supposing the length of the equiponderant column , at any given time , to be 30 inches at the level of the sea , and the temperature to be at the freezing point of water and to remain constant throughout , at ...
... mercury in the barometer . Supposing the length of the equiponderant column , at any given time , to be 30 inches at the level of the sea , and the temperature to be at the freezing point of water and to remain constant throughout , at ...
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Page 7 - Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them...
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Page 673 - In all chemical investigations. it has justly been considered an important object to ascertain the relative weights of the simples which constitute a compound. But unfortunately the enquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative weights in the mass, the relative weights of the ultimate particles or atoms of the bodies...
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Page 593 - The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization furnishes a very striking spectacle.
Page 7 - Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he formed them; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made in the first Creation.
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Page 37 - From the foregoing statements it may be safely inferred that " the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea being the same in every part of the globe...
Page 761 - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY : being a preparatory View of the Forces which concur to the Production of Chemical Phenomena. By J. FREDERIC DANIELL, FRS Professor of Chemistry in King's College, London ; and Lecturer on Chemistry and Geology in the Hon. East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe ; and Author of Meteorological Essays.
Page 593 - ... the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away and reaching the bank of the pool. The eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries.