 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - 1840 - 414 pages
...it can be shown, that the atmosphere contains 3000 billion Hessian lbs. of carbon ; a quantity which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for which... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 pages
...can be shown, that the atmosphere contains 3,000 billion Hessian Ibs. of carbon ; a quantity which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon i* therefore more than adequate to all the purposes for which... | |
 | Henry Colman - 1841 - 586 pages
...can be shown, that the atmosphere contains 3,000 billion Hessian Ibs. of carbon ; a quantity which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon is therefore more than adequate to all the purposes for which... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 600 pages
...atmosphere contains 3,000 billion Hessian Ibs. of carbon ; a quantity which amounts to more than <he weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon is therefore more than adequate to all the purposes for which... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - 1842 - 450 pages
...calculation it can be shown, that the atmosphere contains 3306 billion Ibs. of carbon ; a quantity which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for which... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - 1843 - 446 pages
...calculation it can be shown, that the atmosphere contains 3085 billion Ibs. of carbon — a quantity which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants,...mineral and brown coal existing on the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to supply all the purposes for which it is required. The quantity... | |
 | 1843 - 770 pages
...it can be shown, that the atmosphere contains 3,000 billion Hessian Ibs. of carbon; a quantity which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for which... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - 1843 - 260 pages
...calculation it can be shown, that the atmosphere contains 3306 billion Ibs. of carbon ; a quantity which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for which... | |
 | 1843 - 624 pages
...world. This question, says M. Liebig, is very easily answered. Hessian Ibs. of carbon ; a quantity which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for which... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1841 - 362 pages
...air on every English square foot. J 3306 billion English Ibs. WATERY VAPOUR IN THE ATMOSPHERE. 205 weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exists upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for... | |
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Ibs. of carbon ; a quantity which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for which it is required. 
