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" I have found by experiment that the water taken from the most tranquil part of the lake, even after being agitated and exposed to the air, contained in solution more than its own volume of carbonic acid gas with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen,... "
The Metropolitan - Page 375
1834
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Consolations in Travel, Or, The Last Days of a Philosopher

Sir Humphry Davy - Italy - 1830 - 330 pages
...its surface, that it has the appearance of being actually in ebullition. I have found by experiment that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen, to the presence of which, I conclude, its ancient use in curing cutaneous disorders may be referred....
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The Edinburgh Journal of Science

Science - 1830 - 398 pages
...its surface that it has the appearance of being actually in ebullition. I have found by experiment that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen, to the presence of which, I conclude, its ancient use in curing cutaneous disorders may be referred....
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Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its ...

Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1854 - 870 pages
...appearance of being actually in ebullition. " I have found by experiment," says Sir Humphry Davy, " that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...exposed to the air, contained in solution more than its o*n volume of carbonic acid gas, with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen. Its high temperature,...
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Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its ..., Volume 1

Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1872 - 714 pages
...appearance of being actually in ebullition. ' I have found by experiment,' says Sir Humphry Daw, ' that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...acid gas, with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydroo-en. Its high temperature, which is pretty constant at 80° of Fahr., and the quantity of carbonic...
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Days Near Rome, Volume 1

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Rome (Italy) - 1884 - 362 pages
...oracle.2 ' Sir Humphry Davy made some curious experiments on the process by which the water in these lakes continually adds to the rocks around, by petrifaction...says, that the water taken from the most tranquil part ol the lake, even after being agitated and exposed to the air, contained in solution more than its...
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Consolations in Travel: Or, The Last Days of a Philosopher

Sir Humphry Davy - Italy - 1889 - 208 pages
...the appearance of being actually in ebullition. 92 CONSOLATIONS IN TRAVEL. I have found by experiment that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...solution more than its own volume of carbonic acid ga> with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen, to the presence of which, I conclude, its...
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Commentary on books II-V: Corinth, Laconia, Messenia, Elis

Pausanias - Greece - 1898 - 692 pages
...appearance of being actually in ebullition. ' I have found by experiment,' says Sir Humphry Davy, ' that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen. Its high temperature, which is pretty constant at 80° of Fahr., and the quantity of carbonic acid...
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Transactions, Volumes 2-3

Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - Canada - 1927 - 926 pages
...in some parts the waters appear to be boiling. Sir Humphrey Davy states, in one of his last works, "that the water taken from the "most tranquil part...the lake, even after being agitated "and exposed to air, contains, in solution, more than ita "own volume of carbonic acid gas, with a very small CALCAREOUS...
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The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 3

Science - 1830 - 412 pages
...its surface that it has the appearance of being actually in ebullition. I have found by experiment that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen, to the presence of which, I conclude, its ancient use in curing cutaneous disorders may be referred....
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 12

English periodicals - 1843 - 522 pages
...to impart the appearance of violent ebullition. " I have found by experiment," says Sir H. Davy, " that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...after being agitated and exposed to the air, contained a solution more than its own volume of carbonic acid gas, with a very small quantity of sulphuretted...
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