 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...kinds of air, except what relates to our atmospheric compound. AIR (ATMOSPHEHICAI or COSIMOS). The immense mass of permanently elastic fluid which surrounds the globe we inhabit, must consist of a general assemblage of every kind of air which can be formed by the various bodies... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 456 pages
...by itsheat, and stiffened by its frigidity. But it is chiefly by the predominance of some pe[* " The immense mass of permanently elastic fluid which surrounds the globe we inhabit, must consist of a general assemblage of every kind of air which can be formed by the various bodies... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...returning again with imperceptible discharge .'" Or, to speak in the words of a more modern author, " The immense mass of permanently elastic fluid which surrounds the globe we inhabit, must consist of a general assemblage of every kind of air which can be formed by the various bodies... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1831 - 980 pages
...kinds of air, except what relates to our atmospheric compound. AIR (ATMOSPHERICAL or COMMON). Tlie immense mass of permanently elastic fluid which surrounds the globe we inhabit, must consist of a general assemblage of every kind of air which can be formed by the various bodies... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...the mechanical properties of Air, such as its weight, density, compressibility and elasticity. The immense mass of permanently elastic fluid which surrounds the globe we inhabit, must consist of a general assemblage of every kind of Air which can be formed by the various bodies... | |
 | John Joseph Griffin - 1860 - 636 pages
...compounds which have in different ages ministered to the destroying power of the warrior. ATMOSPHERIC AIR. ATMOSPHERIC AIR is the term applied to that immense...mass of permanently elastic fluid which surrounds tbe globe we inhabit. It Is colourless, tasteless, inodorous, soluble in water to only a very limited... | |
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The immense mass of permanently elastic fluid which surrounds the globe we inhabit, must consist of a general assemblage of every kind of air which can be formed by the various bodies that compose its surface. Most of these, however, are absorbed by water... 