Text-book of Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry

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P. Blakiston, 1906 - Biochemistry - 734 pages
 

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Page 48 - Henry, which is the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one international volt while the inducing current varies at the rate of one Ampere per second.
Page 12 - Avogadro's law states that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules...
Page 48 - As a unit of electromotive force, the international volt, which is the electromotive force that, steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one international ohm, will produce a current of one international ampere...
Page 16 - The heat produced in an ordinary fire is due to the chemical action going on between the oxygen of the air and the carbon and hydrogen of the fuel. Animal heat is largely due to a similar cause — that is, to chemical action going on in the muscles, glands, brain, and, in fact, all the tissues; not, as formerly taught by Liebig...
Page 306 - A mixture of hydrocarbons, chiefly of the methane series, obtained by distilling off the lighter and more volatile portions from petroleum, and purifying the residue.
Page 512 - It is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade.
Page 15 - Experiments made upon this subject have shown that the velocity of diffusion of different gases is inversely proportional to the square roots of their densities...
Page 580 - ... meal, &c., from the oil mills; hoof and horn shavings, hair-manures, leatherscrap, wool-waste, &c., from the tanneries, wool and leather factories. All of these materials contain nitrogen in considerable amounts, as will be seen from the table at the end of this chapter. They are sold according to the varying amount of nitrogen they contain, which is usually expressed as so many "units per ton
Page 158 - they were in large flocks containing both species in the proportion of two of the former to one of the latter " (the present)
Page 37 - The end of the needle or magnet that points to the north is called the north pole, and the other the south pole.

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