 It is imponderable, and, by its distribution, in various proportions, among the particles of matter, gives rise to the three general forms of gas, liquids and solids. The particles of water, by losing caloric, have their cohesion so much increased, that...  Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences ... - Page 1961816Full view - About this book
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...imagines, that all the particles of matter are rspuliive of oni: anotlur : for that otherwife (lince all fubftances have in them a certain quantity of...electric fluid, the particles of which repel one another and7 are attracted by all other matter)-, it could not happen, that bodies in their natural ftate with... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 756 pages
...another: for that otherwife (fincc all fubltances have in them a certain quantity of the electric fluiel, the particles of which repel one another and are attracted by all jpther matter,) it could not happen that bodies tu their natural ftate with refpect to electricity,... | |
 | Edward Turner - Chemistry - 1828 - 516 pages
...employment of it has now become general. Caloric, on the supposition of its being material, is a subtile fluid, the particles of which repel one another, and are attracted by all other substances. It is imponderable ; that ia, it is so exceedingly light that a body undergoes no appreciable... | |
 | Jacob Green - Chemistry - 1829 - 626 pages
...another piece of wood was employed. Caloric, on the supposition of its being material, is a subtile fluid, the particles of which repel one another, and are attracted by all other substances. It is imponderable ; that is, it is so exceedingly light that a body undergoes no appreciable... | |
 | George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 434 pages
...agent which produces the phenomena of lu-'tt and combustion. It is hypothetically regarded as a subtile fluid, the particles of which repel one another, and are attracted by all other substances. It is ponderable, and, by its distribution in various proportions, among the particles... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 618 pages
...agent which produces the phenomena of heat and combustion. It is hypothetically regarded as a subtile fluid, the particles of which repel one another, and are attracted by all other substances. It is imponderable, and, by its distribution, in various proportions, among the particles... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 1116 pages
...agent which produces the phenomena of heat and combustion. It is hypothetically regarded as a subtile fluid, the particles of which repel one another, and are attracted by all other substances. It is imponderable, and, by its distribution in various proportions among the particles... | |
 | Erastus Edgerton Marcy - Homeopathy - 1852 - 660 pages
...of the system. 3d, Caloric. Newton also maintained that caloric is " a distinct material substance, the particles of which repel one another, and are attracted by all other substances." When caloric is given off by a heated body, its atoms impart to all other atoms with which... | |
| |
