The School of Mines Quarterly, Volume 13

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Columbia University, 1892 - Chemistry
 

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Page 254 - There the tears of earth are dried ; There its hidden things are clear ; There the work of life is tried By a juster Judge than here. Father, in Thy gracious keeping Leave we now Thy servant sleeping.
Page 186 - The anode should be a plate of pure silver some 30 square cm. in area and 2 or 3 millimetres in thickness. This is supported horizontally in the liquid near the top of the solution by a platinum wire passed through holes in the plate at opposite corners. To prevent the disintegrated silver which is formed on the anode from falling on to...
Page 186 - The anode is then immersed in the solution so as to be well covered by it and supported in that position ; the connections to the rest of the circuit are made.
Page 2 - That if the general direction of the line can not be altered without great inconvenience, for the purpose mentioned in the preceding article, branch lines should be surveyed to connect those cities with the main line. Seventh. That for the purpose of reducing the cost of the enterprise...
Page 185 - ... the electromotive force that, steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one international ohm, will produce a current of...
Page 2 - These by-laws may be amended at the annual or at any stated or special meeting of the Association, but only by a vote of two-thirds of those present, and provided that ten days' notice in writing of the proposed amendment shall have been given to the Executive Committee, and also that notice of the same shall have been given by the Secretary in the notices of the meeting.
Page 249 - ... run off, treated with acid, the rosin collected in any manner desired, dried, and weighed. A second washing of the soap with petroleum spirit is hardly necessary, as very little remains after the first extraction.
Page 3 - Fifteenth. That the approval of the surveys, the terms of the proposals, the protection of the concessionaires, the inspection of the work, the legislation affecting it, the neutrality of the road, and the free passage of merchandise in transit, should be (in the event contemplated by article eighth) the subject of special agreement between all the nations interested. Sixteenth. That as soon as the Government of the United States shall receive notice of the acceptance of these recommendations by...
Page 219 - Michigan shall be furnished by the United States Geological Survey with photographic copies of the manuscript sheets; and when the engraving is completed, and at all times thereafter when desired, he shall be furnished by the said Survey with transfers from copper plates of the maps for use in printing editions of said maps.
Page 133 - I place the fat or oil in a fluid state in the vessel, A, with from one-third to one-half its bulk of warm water; the disk or piston, B, perforated with numerous small holes, being kept in rapid motion, up and down, in the vessel, A, causes the ftit, or oil and water, to form an emulsion, or intimate mechanical mixture.

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